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Rails, a decentralized crypto exchange, has raised $6.2 million in attempts to fill the void FTX left behind after crashing in 2022, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Satraj Bambra exclusively…

Rails launches with $6.2M round for its decentralized FTX alternative

Over the past couple of years, Nvidia, by far the largest AI chipmaker, has ramped up its investments in startups that propel it deeper into the AI space. According to…

How much are Nvidia’s rivals investing in startups? We investigated

Alongside the fresh capital raise, Andalusia Labs opened its global headquarters in Abu Dhabi.

Andalusia Labs raises $48M Series A to improve digital asset risk infrastructure

As the crypto market continues to slog through a fundraising winter, Faction Ventures, a blockchain-focused venture capital firm, is betting big on the space. The firm has launched its inaugural…

Faction launches $285M early-stage crypto fund

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So your startup’s runway is dwindling and fundraising is hard. What’s next?

What should startups do when their runway is ending, investors are disappearing, and options for more capital dwindle?

So your startup’s runway is dwindling and fundraising is hard. What’s next?

In 2018, Nelson Chu founded Percent with the goal of bringing investors, borrowers and underwriters together to modernize private credit. Seeing an opportunity to tackle the lack of risk management…

Percent lands $30M investment to connect investors with private credit

Seed Club, a DAO-focused accelerator program, has launched its venture arm out of stealth mode with a $25 million fund, the team shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “Seed Club is a…

Seed Club Ventures emerges from stealth with $25M fund focused on DAOs

Venom Foundation, a layer-1 blockchain licensed and regulated by the Abu Dhabi Global Market, and investment manager Iceberg Capital have partnered to launch a $1 billion venture fund, the two…

Venom Foundation and Iceberg Capital launch $1B venture fund to invest in web3

Party rounds have been around for over a decade and a subject of debate for just as long. The positives are obvious. The cons are more complicated.

Let’s talk about party rounds

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our…

Party rounds are either the dinner party of your dreams or the one where no one shows up

Debt, or loans, get a bad rap where they concern startups. But they aren’t always a bad financing vehicle, particularly when other forms of capital…

Why debt raises might make sense in a down economy

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So. Many. New. Venture. Funds.

Further proving that venture investors have more dry powder than ever before, this week started with a flurry of venture capital fund close announcements across sectors and stages. It tells that LPs are staying active amid this dissonant moment in tech, and despite some struggles ahead for emerging fund managers,…

So. Many. New. Venture. Funds.

Off the heels of a $150 million Series B fundraise, New York-based investing platform Republic has acquired Arora Project, an equity crowdfunding media agency that…

Republic acquires crowdfunding media agency Arora Project in ‘multimillion-dollar deal’

Squire is now a 175-person company with a tech platform used by over 2,000 shops across three continents.

Squire, a barbershop tech platform, triples its valuation (again) with Tiger Global

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. It’s now led a $2.3 million…

Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

Laiye, a Chinese startup that offers robotic process automation services to several major tech firms in the nation and government agencies, has raised $42 million in a new funding round…

Lightspeed leads Laiye’s $42M round to bet on Chinese enterprise IT

Google Capital has rebranded to CapitalG, Facebook hub gives its election hub top billing in hopes of making you a more informed voter, Wish is rumored to be raising $500…

Hold tight. Wait till the party’s over Hold tight. We’re in for nasty weather ~Talking Heads, Burning Down The House One law of economic physics always holds true: what goes…

When The Funding Bubble Bursts It Doesn’t Have To Mean Disaster
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Winter Is (Probably) Coming (Soon)

That’s the gist of a recent interview that venture capitalist Bill Gurley gave. His words matter because they cut to the simple fact that too many companies are burning too…

Winter Is (Probably) Coming (Soon)

It’s a good time to be Kickstarter. The crowdfunding platform has had a blockbuster year, breaking into mainstream consciousness with campaigns that raised millions of dollars, like the Pebble e-paper watch…

How Pebble And Other Product Phenomenons Killed It On Kickstarter

To say Wall Street currently suffers from a deficit of trust would be an understatement. In the last few years alone, the government had to bail out Wall Street to…

How Technology Can Solve The Financial Industry’s Deficit Of Trust

The wave of investments in “realtime” is continuing with today’s announcement from Cognitive Match that it has raised Series A investment from Dawn Capital. Terms were undisclosed but it’s understood…