Averon announced today it has closed a $5 million Series A1 financing round led by Avalon Ventures and Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff. The round follows Averon's Series A in October, 2017, which was also led by Avalon Ventures, and brings the full Series
Lino, a decentralized autonomous video startup, announced today that it has secured $20 million in funding through a private token sale. This round was led by ZhenFund and other investors including FBG Capital, DFund, and INBlockchain. Lino uses blockchain technology to ensure content value can be
Kadena, a smart-contract blockchain platform provider, raised $2.25 million in a pre-A financing round to develop the company's new public blockchain. Major investors in the round included Metastable, Kilowatt Capital, Coinfund, and Multicoin Capital. Kadena's new public protocol, "Chainweb," uses a "parallel-chain" architecture to push
Radar Relay, a cryptocurrency exchange technology provider, secured $3 million in seed financing. Nine investors participated in the round: SV Angel, Digital Currency Group, Collaborative Fund, Kindred, Notation Capital, Sparkland Ventures, V1.VC, Kokopelli Capital, and Reciprocal Ventures. Radar Relay’s trustless token trading platform uses blockchain technology
Smart Diploma is a blockchain anti-falsification solution for academic diplomas and certificates. This “digital contract” allows academic organizations to store their documents’ unique identifiers in its Ethereum blockchain to prove their existence. According to the company, its key advantages are anonymity, privacy, and decentralized proof
BlockRepublic, a company that provides tools and information for blockchain investors, has created a hiring and recruitment product. The company aims to provide Blockchain Jobs with 450 engineering, sales and marketing, design, accounting, and finance positions applicants can search and apply for. Blockchain Jobs from
Chia is an eco-friendly cryptocurrency that aims to harness cheap, abundant, unused storage space on hard drives to verify transactions on the blockchain, resulting in a cryptocurrency that’s less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure. The makers plan to sell Chia to the public in
The LA Blockchain Lab, a partnership with the UCLA Blockchain Lab, the USC Center for Cyber-Physical Systems, and The Internet of Things, is creating a community of blockchain advocates on a mission to increase awareness, advance progress, and foster the development of blockchain technology. Set
Simple Token is a utility token enabling any company to create, launch, and manage their own branded digital token economy without the technical, legal, and regulatory risks involved with having an entire blockchain team. The OpenST protocol allows companies to stake Simple Tokens against their
Cryptibles is a cryptocurrencies app for creating and sharing blockchain-tied digital collectibles from cards to coins and figures. These collectibles are tied to the Ethereum blockchain, giving them immutability, rarity, and scarcity, and can be collected, stored and shared by mobile users. Cryptibles was