| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.05.2024 | The Protocol: EigenLayer's 'Intersubjective Forking' Is Objectively Not Done | EigenLayer, the Ethereum "restaking" project that quickly shot to the top ranks of the DeFi leaderboards thanks to so-called airdrop farmers, finally acknowledged plans to launch its own EIGEN token. The terms of the planned airdr... |
| 13.04.2024 | Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI | In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil. So why shouldn’t you be able to sell your own?
From big tech firms to startups, AI makers are licensing e-books, images, videos, audio and more from data brokers, all in the pursuit of trainin... |
| 19.07.2023 | Polychain Capital, Coinfund raise $350M for new crypto funds: Report | Over $350 million has been raised by crypto venture capital firms Polychain Capital and Coinfund, with respective reported raises of $200 million for a new investment fund and $152 million for a seed fund.
A July 18 Forbes report said Polyc... |
| 18.07.2023 | Crypto VC Firm Polychain Capital Raises $200M for Fourth Fund: Fortune | Blockchain-focused venture capital (VC) firm Polychain Capital has raised around $200 million in an initial close for its fourth crypto venture capital fund, Fortune reported citing a person familiar with the matter.
Fortune said that Polyc... |
| 18.07.2023 | Crypto VC Giant Polychain Secures Whopping $200 Million in Funding | Polychain Capital, a leading venture capital firm in the cryptocurrency sector, has successfully raised approximately $200 million in its first funding round for its fourth fund, demonstrating a strong industry interest despite a recent dec... |
| 19.12.2022 | Foundation raises $7M to return ‘sovereignty’ to a chaotic crypto world | Hot on the heels of Ledger announcing it’s working with iPod creator Tony Fadell to create its newest hardware wallet, competing hardware wallet startup Foundation Devices announced it has raised a $7 million seed round to double down on it... |
| 02.12.2022 | Fleek Announces $25 Million Series A Raise Led by Polychain | Funds will be allocated toward developing and launching Fleek Network, a decentralized content and application delivery network
Fleek, a Web3 developer platform, announced Thursday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Fleek’s... |
| 19.09.2022 | Yellow Card announces $40 million Series B round to scale across Africa | Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card has announced the close of its $40M Series B funding led by Polychain Capital. Other investors participating in the round include Valar Ventures, Third Prime, Sozo Ventures, Castle Island Vent... |
| 18.04.2022 | Polychain leads $22M seed round for Nomad | Nomad has raised roughly $22.4 million in seed funding led by Polychain Capital. Based in the Bay Area, the company uses blockchain interoperability to operate a cross-chain messaging protocol.
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| 05.11.2021 | AscendEX Announces a $50 Million Series B Raise Led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC | AscendEX, a global cryptocurrency financial platform, has announced the close of a $50 million Series B raise led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC, with participation from Jump Capital and Alameda Research, as well as Uncorrelated Ventures,... |
| 17.09.2021 | Polychain and Three Arrows Capital Lead $230M Investment in the Avalanche Blockchain Ecosystem | Polychain and Three Arrows Capital have led a $230 million investment in the Avalanche public blockchain ecosystem.
They’ve been joined by R/Crypto Fund, Dragonfly, CMS Holdings, Collab+Currency, Lvna Capital and several angel investors and... |
| 16.09.2021 | Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Lead $230M Investment in Avalanche Ecosystem | Fresh on the heels of a $180 million incentive program, the Avalanche Foundation announced on Thursday a $230 million raise to jumpstart liquidity in the network’s burgeoning decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
The Avalanche Foundation ... |
| 16.09.2021 | Polychain Capital leads $230m investment round in Avalanche | Polychain and Three Arrows Capital have led a $230m investment round in the Avalanche network, buying up the company’s native crypto currency AVAX. |
| 16.09.2021 | Olaf Carlson-Wee’s Polychain Capital Co-Leads $230 Million Investment In Ethereum Challenger Capitalizing On DeFi | Ethereum challenger Avalanche has raised a $230 million investment led by Singapore-based hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and Olaf Carlson-Wee’s Polychain Capital (Carlson-Wee was the first employee at now the largest cryptocurrency exchang... |
| 23.07.2021 | Nym next-generation privacy network gets USD 6.5M | The funding round was led by Polychain Capital, and included a host of European investors such as Eden Block, Greenfield One, Maven11, Tioga, and 1kx. Will Wolf of Polychain Capital says “We’re incredibly excited to partner with the Nym tea... |
| 17.06.2021 | Polychain, Pantera Back $14M Funding Round for DeFi Derivatives Platform SynFutures | Decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives exchange SynFutures raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital, SynFutures announced Wednesday.
As DeFi continues to gain in popularity, investors look to capture niche m... |
| 10.06.2021 | Solana Labs complete a $314.15m private token sale | Solana Labs has announced it has completed a private token sale of $314,159,265 led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital with participation from Alameda Research, Blockchange Ventures, CMS Holdings, Coinfund, CoinShares, Collab Curr... |
| 16.04.2021 | Enso Finance raises $5m to boost the launch of its social trading platform | |
| 16.04.2021 | Enso Finance raises $5m to boost the launch of its social trading platform | Enso was created with the conviction that decentralized finance should not be constricted to whitelisted integrations. Enso platform enables the creation of an unlimited number of strategies that include all ERC-20 tokens available in the D... |
| 18.03.2021 | Maple Finance Raises $1.4M for Its Reputation-Based DeFi Lending Platform | Reputation-based lending is coming to decentralized finance (DeFi) next month with the release of Maple Finance’s “Pool Delegates” lending suite.
The Australian-based startup is set to debut its first undercollateralized lending market with... |
| 02.10.2020 | New investors for blockchain startup Liquity | |
| 02.10.2020 | New investors for blockchain startup Liquity | Incorporated in 2020 in Baar (Zug), Liquity is building a borrowing protocol for Ethereum that will issue interest-free loans (called “troves”) in its USD-pegged stablecoin, LUSD, to borrowers. Due to the volatility of Ethereum, users have ... |
| 21.08.2020 | Polychain Capital's Original Crypto Fund Raises an Additional $19.5M | Polychain Capital's cryptocurrency hedge fund added $19.5 million in investments in the past year, pushing the flagship fund's lifetime raise past $307 million.
Polychain Fund I LP, which invests in cryptocurrencies and Simple Agreements fo... |
| 12.08.2020 | Merico raises $4.1M for its developer analytics platform | Merico, a startup that gives companies deeper insights into their developers’ productivity and code quality, today announced that it has raised a $4.1 million seed round led by GGV Capital, with participation from Legend Star and previous i... |
| 17.06.2020 | Polychain Capital, Square Crypto’s Steve Lee Invest in Bitcoin Broker’s $5.7M Seed Round | A slew of investors is backing bitcoin brokerage River Financial to the tune of $5.7 million.
Announced Wednesday, the San Francisco-based startup has closed a seed round joined by Polychain Capital, Slow Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, D... |
| 09.11.2019 | VC Powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz Presenting Free “Crypto Startup School” in February | Prolific Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is offering a free seven-week program starting in late February 2020 called the “a16z Crypto Startup School.”
Famous for being one of the early backers of Facebook and Instagram, Andreesse... |
| 16.10.2018 | The Crypto Protocol Trying to Unite Every Exchange Order Book | Imagine the liquidity of every crypto exchange, but in one giant pool – one all-seeing order book that listed every conceivable bid and ask for any asset.
That's the promise of a new startup announcing its equity seed round Tuesday exclusiv... |
| 15.08.2018 | Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund | Pantera Capital, a San Francisco firm that has made its mark in recent years by investing early and often in a wide variety of digital assets, is looking to raise up to $175 million for its third venture fund — an enormous jump from the $25... |
| 07.07.2018 | Beyond Ethereum: The battle to own blockchain’s ‘layer two’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ethereum — as the current incumbent among general... |
| 07.07.2018 | Beyond Ethereum: The battle to own blockchain’s ‘layer two’ | Ethereum — as the current incumbent among general-purpose permissionless blockchains — has to date offered the best resources, tooling, and incentives for developers to build on top of its protocol. These “layer-two” projects combine off-ch... |
| 25.06.2018 | Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon | Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has some big, and bigger, news today. First, it closed a dedicated crypto fund late last week from a subset of its limited partners, who’ve provided the firm with $300 million in capital ... |
| 20.06.2018 | Investing In Token Focused Funds | At USV, we have been active in the blockchain/crypto sector since 2011. At this time, we have direct investments in nine companies/projects in the crypto space and one exited investment. Companies in the blockchain/crypto sector make up abo... |
| 20.02.2018 | A Dangerous Landscape: Market Fluctuations – By Kaila Krayewski | Guest Post By Kaila Krayewski
One of the things about digital currencies that makes it so appealing to investors is its highly volatile nature, comparable to the Wild West minus the good sheriff. Described as a “volatility swing,” investing... |
| 28.10.2017 | Video Of The Week: Polychain | Late last year, USV funded a new hedge fund called Polychain Capital, which invests only in crypto-assets.
I talked about the reasons for that investment in this blog post.
In the video of the week, Polychain founder Olaf Carlson-Wee talks ... |
| 19.07.2017 | Blockchain Investing with Olaf Carlson-Wee and Aaron Harris
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Transcript | Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, a blockchain investing hedge fund.
Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC. |
| 19.07.2017 | Blockchain Investing with Olaf Carlson-Wee and Aaron Harris | Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, a blockchain investing hedge fund.
Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC. |
| 17.04.2017 | Millions in Minutes: How Polychain Makes Sense of the ICO Wild West | Token fever is taking hold in Bitcoinland.
Call them 'token sales', 'initial coin offerings' or just plain 'ICOs', the idea that funding a new project can be as simple as creating cryptographically unique units of data, linking them to a bl... |
| 05.04.2017 | Polychain | We invested in a hedge fund that only invests in cryptotokens recently called Polychain. I wrote about that when we did it.
Here’s a conversation between Olaf Carlson-Wee, the founder of Polychain, and Chris Dixon where they talked all abou... |
| 08.01.2017 | The future is a decentralized internet | Olaf Carlson-Wee Contributor
Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder of Polychain Capital, which manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in blockchain-based assets.
Blockchain technology is quickly expanding beyond bitcoin. While many propone... |
| 26.12.2016 | Polychain Capital Raises £10M in VC Funding | Polychain Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based manager of a hedge fund which invests in a diversified portfolio of blockchain tokens, raised £10m in vc funding.
Backers included Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.
The company is us... |
| 12.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Monday, December 12 | TWINKIE RETURN, LAYOFF WATCH, AND THE NEW AUSTERITY
The New York Times published a big feature on private equity over the weekend. It takes a slightly lighter touch than certain past magazine covers… A few takeaways:
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| - | Here's an exclusive look at the 13-slide pitch deck that NFT authentication start-up ORIGYN used to raise $20 million from investors including Bill Ackman and Paris Hilton | ORIGYN chief executive Daniel Haudenschild. Venturelab This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The NFT authentication non-profit ORIGYN just raised $20 million from investors incl... |
| - | Лучшие крипто-венчурные фонды и проекты в 2022 году | Инфраструктура Web3
И платформы смарт-контрактов, и экосистемы DeFi являются разновидностями инфраструктурных решений для Web3. Web3 — это открытый, не требующий разрешений, децентрализованный Интернет, где все пользователи могут создавать,... |
| - | Exclusive: Cross-chain protocol Nomad raises $22.4 million in a round led by crypto investing giant Polychain Capital | Pranay Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Nomad Nomad This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
US-based crypto protocol Nomad raised $22.4 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capita... |