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Cryptocurrency pioneer Diana Biggs joins digital assets startup Valour as its new CEO

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Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre. Tesla buys $1.5B

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Crypto asset management platform Cobo bags $40M Series B

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With interest in the crypto revolution soaring across Asia, it’s high time to expand blockchain infrastructures to meet the rising demand, especially as we’re seeing growing enthusiasm among institutions,” said the company CEO and co-founder Discus Fish, also known as Shixing Mao. Binance Labs leads $1.6M

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Social investment platform eToro to acquire fintech startup Gatsby for $50M

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Jeff Myers and Ryan Belanger-Saleh co-founded Gatsby, a commission-free options and stock-trading app aimed at younger traders, in 2018. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3 The company first filed for regulatory approval in December of 2021. E Toro has grown impressively in recent years. million at the end of 2019, 17.5

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EU-based digital assets platform Finoa inks $22M Series A funding led by Balderton Capital

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The company was founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Ebbing, but both had previously worked together at McKinsey and started working in blockchain in 2017. The team they have assembled is uniquely positioned to do just that.”.

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Crypto is altering the investing landscape for even the most disciplined VCs

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So, is it hype, the promise of innovation in crypto, or a little bit of both? These structures were popular in the 2017-2018 [Initial Coin Offering] days and have become less prevalent today.”. The days are long but the years are short in crypto,” Stan Miroshnik, partner and co-founder of 10T Holdings, said to TechCrunch.

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Sila banks $13M to offer single API for developing financial products, services

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The company was founded in 2018 by Shamir Karkal, Angela Angelovska, Isaac Hines and Alex Lipton to simplify digital payments and storage in a regulatory compliant way and build on blockchain technology. The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million.

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Creative platform EVEN raises $2.2M seed round to help artists sell directly to fans

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EVEN is built on the blockchain in order to provide more transparency regarding such transactions. A music industry veteran of 10 years, Rodriguez was introduced to the tech world after he helped build an art program for the gener8tor, a startup accelerator based in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2018.