Venture Capital

Faction aims to provide long-term capital support to early-stage web3 projects

The fund will focus on early-stage and seed-stage investments.

Sector Pulled In Over $700M Despite Brutal Bear Market

Venture Capital Firm Disagrees With Community Plan For Bridging

Fundraising is Down 24% But Decentralized Sector Holding Its Own in Harsh Year

Carapace Raises $2.5M in Round Led by NFX

Venture Capital Giant's Move Signals Outsize Ambitions in NFT Market

Data Dashboard Enables Devs to Improve Wallet Access

1confirmation Venture Firm Launches $100M Fund for NFTs

It's Still Glaring How Imbalanced DeFi Remains When it Comes to Diversity

VCs are Choosier About Investments in Bear Market

Traditional Institutions Are Increasingly Tapping DeFi Loans

UniSwap Expansion into Venture Investing Raises Eyebrows

Latest Raise is Yet Another Bullish Sign for Web3

Section 1:10 Ken Seiff is the general partner of Blockchange Ventures, one of the longest standing venture funds focusing on early stage blockchain startups. One of his very first forays intor crypto was as one of the investors in Ethereum’s token sale, as I describe in my book, The Infinite Machine. He went on to…

The trailblazing Ethereum dev shop closed a fresh fundraising round amid swirling controversy.

Electric Capital unveiled $1B for two funds that will support blockchain projects with investments in equity and tokens.

Web3 has the potential to even the playing field between experienced techies and the next generation, writes James Whitley.

Crowndfunding giant Kickstarter has embraced the Celo blockchain, sparking questions about whether it might issue a token to reward investors.

Top investors share how they're playing the development of the metaverse as hype explodes.

Add AngelList to the ever-lengthening list of mainstream tech outfits going crypto. On Tuesday it started letting investors use USDC-enabled funds on its site.  It’s a significant move. For the last decade, AngelList’s online bulletin board for angel investors and job-seekers has made it a valuable utility in the U.S. startup scene by playing matchmaker…

Bucking a bearish crypto market, FTX, the two-year-old cryptocurrency exchange, announced a $900M Series B funding round at a valuation of $18B, the company said in a statement released yesterday.  The deal is a clear sign that for all the angst in the markets, well-heeled investors are only too eager to play the long game…

The NFT marketplace OpenSea has reached a $1.5B valuation after a $100M Series B funding round led by a16z. This makes OpenSea the newest NFT-based unicorn, or a privately held startup company valued over $1B. A16z also led OpenSea’s $23M Series A round in March. This year, the venture giant also invested in Dapper Labs,…

In this week’s episode we speak with Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, one of the most active VC funds in DeFi and crypto. One of the fund’s investments is Unsiwap, where Dan also had a central role in the design of v3, the latest version of DeFi’s most popular decentralized exchange. Dan talks about why…