Variant is a seed-stage fund investing in web3.
Employees: 11-50
Portfolio 68
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 18.11.2023 | Lens Proto... | lens.xyz | $15M | - |
| 18.11.2023 | Canto | canto.io | - | - |
| 18.11.2023 | Zeal | zeal.app | - | United Sta... |
| 18.11.2023 | Modulus | modulus.xyz | - | - |
| 18.11.2023 | Delegate | delegate.xyz | - | - |
| 18.11.2023 | sudoswap | sudoswap.xyz | - | - |
| 26.10.2023 | Botto | botto.com | - | - |
| 26.10.2023 | Blockaid | blockaid.io | $33M | - |
| 26.10.2023 | Blackbird | blackbird.xyz | $35M | United Sta... |
| 19.08.2023 | Alluvial | alluvial.finance | $12M | United Sta... |
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Persons 19
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Caleb | Shough | CFO/COO | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Geoff | Hamilton | Investment... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Alana | Levin | Investment... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Tom | Dils | Chief of S... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Jake | Chervinsky | Chief Lega... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Calder | Zwerling | Strategic ... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Alli | Pope | Director o... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Jack | Gorman | Data Scien... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Li | Jin | Co-Founder... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Marc | Boiron | Strategic ... | twitter.co... | - | - |
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Mentions in press and media 16
| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.08.2024 | OpenSea Gets SEC 'Wells Notice' – Industry Reaction | This morning, OpenSea said it had received a Wells Notice from the Securities Exchange Commission warning the agency was about to sue the leading NFT platform for violation of securities laws. The threatened action is the latest in a long l... |
| 01.08.2024 | Crypto Lending Firm Morpho Bags $50M in Funding Round Led by Ribbit Capital | Morpho did not disclose a valuation based on the funding, which was raised by a private token sale. Morpho previously raised $18 million in 2022, when the DeFi firm’s CEO, Paul Frambot, was still in his third year at college. Morpho, a dece... |
| 24.05.2024 | Farcaster Secures $150M Funding to Revolutionize Decentralized Social Networking | Farcaster, a pioneering decentralized social network protocol startup, has recently announced a significant milestone by raising $150 million in new funding. This substantial investment will not only fuel the expansion of Farcaster's featur... |
| 21.05.2024 | Farcaster secures $150M to expand decentralized social networking features Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provid... | Decentralized social network protocol startup Farcaster said today it has raised $150 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to further grow its user base and add new in-protocol features such as channels and direct messaging. Fou... |
| 27.02.2023 | Top VCs to meet at ETHDenver 2023 | As the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency continues to grow and evolve, it is important for entrepreneurs and developers to stay on top of the latest trends and opportunities in the industry. EthDenver 2023 is bringing together some of ... |
| 29.07.2022 | Crypto fund Variant raises $450M to invest in DeFi and Web3 projects Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes A... | The crypto markets are down dampening the industry, but that’s not stopping venture firm Variant, which announced Thursday that it has raised $450 million across two funds targeting Web3 and decentralized finance startups. Variant is an ear... |
| 09.02.2022 | Экономика собственности 2022 - ключевой элемент WEB3 | Учебник по состоянию web3 0 Обсудить 35 просмотров На основе статьи Наша команда в Variant провела последние несколько месяцев, анализируя экономику собственности — на чем она держится, где терпит неудачу и куда может направляться дальше. В... |
| 15.01.2022 | Crypto Influencer Cooper Turley Removed From FWB Over 2013 Bigoted Tweets | Cooper Turley, an investor and influencer at the heart of crypto’s burgeoning DAO scene, has been kicked out of Friends With Benefits (FWB), the exclusive online social club he helped build over the past year. “The Code of Conduct committee... |
| 19.10.2021 | Instacart’s largest acquisition yet is a $350 million bet on cashierless, in-store shopping | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. One factor that will help keep this current fervid pace of dealmaking, even as lock-down orders f... |
| 19.10.2021 | Variant debuts a new $110M fund for crypto startups, announces Li Jin has joined as a general partner | While investors continue to question whether crypto will swallow up more traditional VC opportunities down the road, it certainly appears that today the blockchain space is eating up the attention of Silicon Valley’s buzziest early investor... |
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