The 11 Biggest Crypto Funding Rounds So Far in 2015
Ripple's cumulative funding to date stands at $41m following Santander InnoVenture's $4m investment in its Series A round. This month has seen a flurry of funding announcements from various crypto companies, injecting an additional $40m of venture capital to the space. Blockchain technology startup Chain - the most notable raise of the month so far - closed a $30m funding round with support from companies including Visa. With bitcoin's total venture capital to date standing at $914.94m and rivalling that of the early internet, CoinDesk has taken a look at the biggest crypto funding rounds....
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Coinapult, one of the biggest companies in the Bitcoin industry. When we last talked to them it was regarding the public beta launch of Locks, the ability to “lock” in your value of Bitcoin and tie it to the value of a commodity. Today, we will be talking about the funding they just received. Our Locks launch went very well. We have been developing upgrades to the website based on the initial feedback, and have already rolled out a number of improvements in our invoicing, Locks, and account interfaces. Sure, we raised a total of $775K in two seed rounds. Both rounds involved FirstMark....
Coinbase announced yesterday that it has raised $75m in VC funding - the biggest investment in a bitcoin company so far. The funding came as part of a Series C round that attracted a range of financial heavyweights such as the New York Stock Exchange, Fortune 500 financial services group USAA, and Spanish banking group BBVA, as well as Japanese telecoms giant DoCoMo. While the bitcoin services company has spent the last year building out new services and expanding to Europe, venture capitalists have remained active in the ecosystem. Funding for bitcoin startups soared in 2014, showing a....
In 2015, Bitcoin and blockchain companies closed 74 deals, raising a total of $474 million USD in venture capital, an all-time high, according to a new report by CB Insights and KPMG. The three largest deals in the bitcoin space were also the three first Series C funding rounds, suggesting that the venture capital space is continuing to mature to....
A 713% increase in venture capital funding went to global blockchain startups last year, but will this trend continue? Last year was impressive for blockchain startups, as research from CB Insights found that venture capital funding reached new heights during every quarter of 2021. According to CB Insights’ “State Of Blockchain 2021” report, $25.2 billion worth of venture capital funding went to global blockchain startups last year, demonstrating a 713% increase from $3.1 billion in 2020.The report also found that the United States led the greatest amount of funding deals in Q4 of last....
Amidst a bearish price cycle and a wave of negative press, it's safe to say that 2015 may be yet another year filled with growing pains for bitcoin. In the face of these obstacles, however, many of its veteran supporters are standing strong and banding together. Given its longstanding support for the digital currency ecosystem, it's perhaps no surprise that Union Square Ventures (USV) participated in Coinbase's recent $75m funding round alongside Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. USV has so far participated in three of Coinbase's four public funding rounds, while appearing....