Ledger Wallet Closes 1.3 Million Euros In Seed Funding
Ledger Wallet, a Paris, France-based provider of bitcoin security solutions, has raised 1.3 million euros in seed money to accelerate the development of its product line and expand its global reach. XAnge Capital, a French private equity and venture capital group, led the seed funding. Accompanying XAnge Capital are Pascal Gauthier, the former Criteo chief operating officer. Hi-Pay. Fred Potter, founder of NetAtmo. Thibaut Faures Fustel de Coulanges, vice president of Rentabiliweb Group; and Alain Tinguad Innovations. Ledger Wallet since 2013 has developed security solutions to solve....
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Bitcoin hardware wallet startup Ledger has raised €1.3m (£959,000) in a seed round led by French VC fund, XAnge Private Equity. Also participating in the round were Hi-Pay (Hi-Media group), NetAtmo CEO Fred Potter, Rentabiliweb Group VP Thibaut Faurès Fustel de Coulanges, Alain Tingaud Innovations and Pascal Gauthier, Criteo’s ex-COO and founder of Challenger Deep, a bitcoin startup currently working in stealth mode. This event is being seen as significant for the French bitcoin community. While digital currency startups in other countries such as the US have seen significant VC funding....
While people mainly hear about Trezor, a hardware Bitcoin wallet, there are alternatives. For example, take a look at Ledger. Ledger is a more affordable wallet, which is around .13 BTC and plugs into a PC; it is controlled via a Chrome Browser extension. It signs transactions and can access your wallet, even under the worst possible scenario where PC is infected with malware or key loggers. Ledger’s website touts secure transactions even on a fully compromised computer, thanks to its employment form factor of an EAL5+ industry standard smart-card.
After raising $1.65 million via a pre-seed extension, Bitmama, a Nigeria-based blockchain startup, has now closed its pre-seed funding round at $2 million, a report has said. Leading the funding round were two Africa-focused venture capital firms: Unicorn Growth Capital and Launch Africa.
New Funding to Help Bitmama Scale Up Crypto Use Cases in Africa
A Nigeria-based blockchain startup, Bitmama, recently closed its pre-seed funding round at $2 million after it added $1.65 million to the $350,000 that was raised in October last year. According to a Techcrunch report, the funding....
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....
Bitwala has announced that the company has successfully raised over 800000 euros in seed funding from the who's who of European industry. Bitwala, the bitcoin-based remittance service located in Netherlands has announced that it has successfully raised investments. Started in 2012, the company has been bootstrapping all this while until the very first fundraising round came along. In the recently concluded seed funding round, the company has raised about 800,000 euros. Bitwala is one of the leading remittance service providers with over 10,000 customers. The announcement about the closure....