VeradiVerdict — Facebook Launches Libra Token, What Does This Mean? — Issue #43
Talks about Facebook Libra, cryptocurrency and blockchain
At Pantera I’m a swiss army knife: I have my hand in a number of activities. On any given day I might work with a company to negotiate a new deal, delegate operational tasks to our team, or solve problems for our portfolio companies. I’m passionate about how the blockchain will bring transparency, efficiency, and cost-savings for institutions and corporations. My favorite part of my role is learning about new technologies or products that are going to revolutionize how value is transferred among different parties. Some achievements I’m proud of include: * Closed 100 venture investments; sourcing most of them * Closed 100 Token pre-sale Investments; sourcing, fundraising, token economics, and marketing * Authoring monthly investor letters and speaking at industry events; I enjoy serving as a resource for other investors * Building relationships with incubators, startups, and institutions and discovering unexpected, but valuable opportunities for everyone involved
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency.
EDX completed their series B round of funding led by Pantera Capital and Sequoia Capital. EDX Markets is an institutional cryptocurrency exchange backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Charles Schwab Corporation, and Virtu Financial among others.
EDX Markets is a digital asset exchange that combines innovative technology with practices from traditional finance.
Leading developer platform for decentralized technologies. Pantera Capital led the Series A with participation from Stanford University, Coinbase, Samsung, SignalFire, plus angels like Charles Schwab, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Google chairman John Hennessy and more. Most recent round was led by Lightspeed Venture Capital at a valuation of $10.2B.
Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Raised $563,903,667.00 from Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Pantera Capital, DFJ Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Addition.
Starkware was founded in 2017 and aims to provide scaling and security solutions for Ethereum-based products through its “STARK” mathematical systems, which aim to enable more efficient use of blockchain. Pantera led the seed round and investors include Sequoia Capital and Coatue, latter leading the Series D at $8B valuation.
M^0 Labs builds technology around the M^0 ecosystem (https://m0.org). M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. Based on a decentralized architecture and best-in-class collateral design, M^0 allows institutions to issue cryptodollars.
VALR offers its customers the ability to safely buy, sell and store Bitcoin and 60 other cryptocurrencies—the widest selection of any platform in Africa—at some of the lowest fees in the world. VALR has processed over $7.5 billion (R115 billion) in trading volume since its launch in 2019 and now serves over 250,000 retail customers and 500 institutional clients from across the globe.
Pintu is a mobile first digital asset (blockchain based) platform that offers customers the opportunity to safely buy, sell, manage, and utilize their blockchain based assets. Pantera led the Series A (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/26/indonesian-crypto-exchange-pintu-gets-6m-series-a-led-by-pantera-intudo-and-coinbase-ventures/)
Staked runs staking nodes on behalf of institutional investors, allowing them to earn the staking rewards offered by proof-of-stake currencies. To learn more, please visit https://www.staked.us/
Staked is a startup that provides institutional investors with the technical infrastructure for non-custodial staking services.
Raised $4,500,000.00 from Nisa Amoils, Global Brain Corporation, Fabric Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, 9Yards Capital, Pantera Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Republic capital, Digital Currency Group and Visary Capital.
On Deck Angels (ODA) is a continuous community for operator angels. We combine an incredible network of peers, world-class curriculum and exclusive deal flow to help you refine your investing craft and build lasting relationships.
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Blockfolio is the #1 portfolio management and social network for the crypto currency industry
Blockfolio offers mobile portfolio tracking and management for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.
Raised $15,950,500.00 from John Cynn, Hashkey Exchange, NKB Ventures, Pantera Capital, Toy Ventures, Kaimin Hu, Pathfinder, imToken, COIND and Abstract Ventures.
Talks about Facebook Libra, cryptocurrency and blockchain
Talks about Ampleforth, synthetic commodity money and cryptocurrencies
Talks about Kik ICO, Kin token and SEC regulations
Talks about Cryptocurrency payments, Flexa and SPEDN app and Retailers accepting crypto