ChangeTip Raises $3.5 Million in Seed Funding
ChangeTip, the viral social media tipping platform, raised $3.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Bitcoin investment firm Pantera Capital, with participation from DCG, CryptoCurrency Partners, Bold Star Ventures, and others. As mentioned in Pantera Capital's press release, the latest round of funding will be allocated towards bettering the platform's infrastructure by focusing on "product enhancement, platform engineering development, and user acquisition." Already a craze on leading social media channels, ChangeTip claims to have brought over 50,000 users to the Bitcoin....
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Dan Held, the former Blockchain.info Product Manager and Co-Founder of ZeroBlock, is joining ChangeTip as their new VP of Product. ChangeTip is currently on a hiring spree after receiving a seed round of $3.5 million in funding. ChangeTip's seed round was led by Pantera Capital but also included big names such as 500 Startups, Bold Start Ventures, and CryptoCurrency Partners. ChangeTip previously had an angel round of $750,000. Also read: Is ChangeTip the Viral Bitcoin Killer App? From ZeroBlock to Blockchain.info to ChangeTip. Dan Held first entered the Bitcoin industry when starting....
Bitcoin social tipping startup ChangeTip has announced $3.5m in seed funding, drawing support from a variety of bitcoin-focused investment funds and entrepreneurs. The seed round was led by Pantera Capital, according to the San Francisco-based startup. Other participants in the round included500 Startups, Boldstart Ventures, CryptoCurrency Partners and Idealab. ChangeTip intends to use the funds to build out its infrastructure as well as redouble efforts to continue expanding its user base. Several weeks ago, the popular microtipping service revealed that it had brought in more than 30,000....
It is raining investments in the digital currency sector. A number of companies have raised millions of dollars in funding in recent days. Case Wallet Inc. also known as CryptoLabs has recently raised another tranche of seed investment of about $750,000 towards its bitcoin wallet business. Case Wallet Inc. is the manufacturer of Case secure hardware bitcoin wallets. The New York based startup has so far raised seed investment of about $2.25 million, including the earlier $1.5 million raised in June 2015. With the latest tranche of investment, the seed investment round stands closed. READ....
A Cornell professor is done hearing about how bad ChangeTip feels when he called them out for their, what he believes to be, potentially dangerous business model. A few weeks ago, Emin Gün Sirer said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death due to the fact that the company has the ability to link user data on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit directly to corresponding bitcoin addresses. Because ChangeTip's parent company recently raised $3.5 million in seed funding, Sirer believes the company will eventually cripple under the financial pressure and sell user data to interested parties. As....
PRESS RELEASE. Vancouver, August 8, 2022 – Airswift, a fintech startup pioneering Web 3.0 native payment solutions, announced that it raised $2 million USD in a pre-seed funding round led by CE Innovation Capital (CEiC).
The latest funding comes amid a bear market sentiment and uncertainty around crypto. It indicates that investors are confident about Airswift’s unique model, and optimistic about the future of payment solutions that power the use of digital assets.
With blockchain technology at its core, Airswift is building a comprehensive payment....