🍋Fresh Funding🍋
NFT Genius, NFT Production: $4M⮕ The seed investment round saw participation from Mark Cuban, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Popliano, Roham Gharegozlou, and HOF Capital.
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- NFT Genius aims to offer celebrities the opportunity to create and sell digital collectibles.
- The project was born from Bitcoin Origins, using the collectible trading blockchain WAX.
- The startup considers itself “blockchain-agnostic,” developing NFT solutions within the WAX, Ethereum, and Flow ecosystems.
Ramp, Payment Infrastructure: $9M⮕ The seed funding round was led by NFX and Galaxy Digital, with participation from Roham Gharegozlou, Taavet Hinrikus, Charles Dlingpole, Keith Grose, and others.
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- The “PayPal for crypto” service provides infrastructure for crypto payments and on-ramps.
- The startup offers a non-custodial solution for customers to convert fiat into cryptocurrency efficiently.
- Ramp previously raised a $1.2M pre-seed round in 2018.
Rangers Protocol, Blockchain Infrastructure: $63M⮕ The private equity funding round was participated in by Pantera Capital, Huobi Ventures Blockchain Fund, Framework Ventures, Alameda Research, AU21 Capital, SNZ, and others.
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- The Shanghai-based startup rebranded from Rocket Protocol ahead of this latest funding round.
- Rangers Protocol currently offers a cross-chain protocol, NFT platform, and Ethereum Virtual Machine system.
- With the fresh funding, the startup plans to establish community organizations and continue improving upon its newest protocol upgrade.