Investment and Financing Weekly Report | The market rebounded slightly, and the Metaverse Infrastructure Worlds Enterprises completed a $21 million Series A financing

Foresight_News · 2023-01-13T11:05:05.000Z
According to Foresight News statistics, between January 7 and January 13, a total of 15 investment and financing events occurred in the crypto market, including 2 in tools and infrastructure, 3 in the DeFi field, 3 in the asset management field, chain games and NFT Domain 3 pen, Web3 domain 4 pen. The total disclosed investment and financing amount is approximately US$89 million. There were three tens of millions of dollars in financing this week, including social crypto wallet The Easy Company completing a $14.2 million seed round; industrial metaverse infrastructure Worlds Enterprises completing a $21 million Series A round of financing; Foresight Ventures strategic investment in cryptocurrency market making CyberX received US$15 million.
According to Foresight News, there were 15 investment and financing events in the crypto market from January 7 to January 13, including 2 in tools and infrastructure, 3 in DeFi, 3 in asset management, 3 in blockchain games and NFT, and 4 in Web3. The total amount of investment and financing disclosed was approximately US$89 million.
 
There were three multi-million dollar financings this week, including a $14.2 million seed round for social crypto wallet The Easy Company; a $21 million Series A round for industrial metaverse infrastructure Worlds Enterprises; and a $15 million strategic investment in cryptocurrency market maker CyberX by Foresight Ventures.
This week, the heat of various investment and financing segments has rebounded.
 
In terms of institutions, active institutions this week include Shima Capital and Not Boring Capital, which mainly focus on areas such as DeFi, NFT and blockchain games.
 
Note: Fundraising from investment funds is not included in project financing.
 
Tools and Infrastructure
Social crypto wallet The Easy Company completes $14.2 million in seed round financing
Social crypto wallet The Easy Company has completed a $14.2 million seed round of financing, with investors including Lobby Capital, Relay Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Tapestry, Upside and Scribble, as well as angel investors from traditional social media and Web3. Easy aims to combine user-selected profiles with social features, allowing users to search, navigate and discover the Web3 world on their own. Easy is designed with cross-chain capabilities and is currently compatible with Ethereum and Polygon NFT. The Easy Company will use the funds to continue building social products, and will also be used to expand support for other blockchains.
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Industrial Metaverse Infrastructure Worlds Enterprises Completes $21 Million Series A Funding
Worlds Enterprises, a 4D infrastructure provider for building the Industrial Metaverse, announced the completion of a $21 million Series A financing round led by Moneta Ventures, with participation from Align Capital, Green Park & ​​Golf Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Piva Capital, Perot Jain, and Capital Factory. Worlds Enterprises went public in August 2021 and created a 4D infrastructure to build the Industrial Metaverse, a platform that brings AI automation directly into the underlying operations of large industrial companies.
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DeFi
DeFi lending agreement Exactly Protocol completes $2 million in financing
DeFi lending protocol Exactly Protocol has completed a $2 million financing round, led by Synthetix founder Kain Warwick, Daedalus, and Decentraland co-founder Esteban Ordano, with participation from Bodhi Ventures, Newtopia VC, NXTP Ventures, and Kaszek Ventures. This round of financing will be used to expand the team and develop products. Exactly Protocol said it will launch fixed-rate deposit and loan products.
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Decentralized protocol Alkimiya completes $7.2 million financing, led by 1kx and Castlesland Ventures
Decentralized protocol Alkimiya completed a $7.2 million financing in November last year, led by 1kx and Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Dragonfly, Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, BODL Ventures, etc. The funds will be mainly used to expand its team. Alkimiya plans to launch a complete product suite in the first quarter of this year, including Vault products and ETH staking contracts on the Ethereum mainnet. Alkimiya was founded by former Itaú Unibanco engineer Ricardo Grobel and former Morgan Stanley employee Zhang, aiming to provide hedging solutions for block space producers such as miners and staking validators.
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Cosmos-based DeFi protocol Quasar Finance completes $5.4 million in financing, led by Shima Capital
Quasar Finance, a Cosmos-based DeFi protocol, has raised $5.4 million at a valuation of $70 million, led by Shima Capital, with participation from Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital, HASH Capital, CIB, and Osmosis co-founder Sunny Aggarwal. The funds will be used for product development and team expansion. Quasar plans to provide structured investment products for DeFi, starting with an automatically rebalancing index for the Cosmos ecosystem that supports asset linkage. After several months of private testing, Quasar will open its public testnet on February 10.
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Asset Management
Crypto tax service company Cryptiony completes 500,000 euros pre-seed financing
Crypto tax service company Cryptiony has completed a 500,000 euro pre-seed financing, led by ff Venture Capital, with participation from Pointer Capital and Web3 angel investor Marcin Wenus. Cryptiony provides a cryptocurrency tax calculation and tax automation platform that can automatically create complete tax obligation reports that comply with complex tax laws.
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Crypto payments provider Wyre removes 90% withdrawal limit rule after securing funding
Crypto payments provider Wyre has announced that it has received a round of financing from a strategic partner that will allow it to continue normal operations and will resume accepting deposits as well as immediately remove the 90% withdrawal limit rule. Last week, Wyre announced that it was changing its withdrawal rules, stating that while customers will continue to be able to withdraw their funds, withdrawals will be limited to no more than 90% of the current funds in each customer account, and customers will be subject to the current daily limit rules.
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Foresight Ventures strategically invests $15 million in cryptocurrency market maker CyberX
Foresight Ventures strategically invested $15 million in cryptocurrency market maker CyberX. CyberX co-founder Zack Fan said that with the support of Foresight Venture, in addition to building its risk management framework, part of the funds will be used to obtain regulatory licenses and further research and develop its trading capabilities.
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NFT and blockchain games
 
Blockchain gaming platform Rainmaker Games completes $4.7 million in financing
Blockchain gaming platform Rainmaker Games has completed a new round of seed financing of US$4.7 million, led by Placeholder and Hivemind Capital, with participation from Shima Capital, Peer Ventures, CoinFund, Side Door Ventures, Blockwall Capital and Tokenbay Capital. Rainmaker Games completed a seed round of financing of US$6.5 million in December 2021. Rainmaker Games said that the new version of its platform will be more targeted at the gaming community and plans to launch a test version in early 2023.
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Metaverse developer Digital Village completes $4 million in financing
French metaverse developer Digital Village has completed a $4 million financing round, with investors including L'Oréal's fund BOLD, the British Fashion Council, Venture Reality Fund, Venrex, etc. Digital Village will use the funds to enhance platform capabilities and add new tools to promote 3D world development, advanced avatar customization and virtual store creation, enabling brands and creators to provide immersive virtual experiences.
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Metaverse startup Trezi completes over $2 million in Series A funding, led by World V and others
Trezi, a Metaverse startup, has completed a $2 million Series A round led by World V, YourNest Venture Capital, Auxano Capital and She Capital, with participation from Indian Angel Network (IAN), Rockstud Capital and Stanford Angels and entrepreneurs. The company will use the funds to accelerate its platform development in the Metaverse and accelerate its entry into new regions with high potential. Trezi is a Metaverse platform that connects architects, designers and construction engineers. It mainly uses immersive technology to help users in the infrastructure industry communicate and collaborate. Users can upload building models for real-time viewing, editing and remote collaboration.
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Web3
Subscription movie ticketing service MoviePass completes seed round led by Animoca Brands and will develop Web3 strategy
MoviePass, a subscription-based movie ticketing service, announced the completion of its seed round of financing, led by Animoca Brands, with other investors including Claritas Capital, Emerald Plus, Gaingels, Harlem Capital, PKO VC and Sandhill Angels. Yat Siu, executive chairman and co-founder of Animoca Brands, will join the board of directors of MoviePass. MoviePass has not yet disclosed the specific amount of financing. MoviePass will use the new funds to accelerate the beta relaunch of its cinema subscription service and develop and implement the company's Web3 strategy, including virtual reality cinema experiences and the use of technology to drive cinema traffic. MoviePass will also work with theater exhibitors and film companies to provide variable ticket prices for movie fans.
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Web3 Cultural Heritage Protection Platform Quantum Temple Completes $2 Million Pre-Seed Round of Financing, Led by Borderless Capital
Web3 cultural heritage protection platform Quantum Temple announced the completion of a $2 million Pre-seed round of financing, led by Borderless Capital, with participation from the Algorand Foundation, Outliers Fund, Shima Capital, New Moon Ventures and NxGen, as well as a group of angel investors. Quantum Temple uses NFTs to protect cultural heritage and promote fair exchanges between collectors, using blockchain technology to permanently protect and share knowledge, traditions and cultural art forms around the world. Quantum Temple has now created a decentralized platform designed to record and fund cultural heritage through NFTs.
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Open Forest Protocol, a blockchain-based reforestation data verification platform, completes $4.1 million in seed funding
Open Forest Protocol (OFP), an open forest measurement, reporting and verification platform built on a carbon-neutral blockchain, announced the completion of a $4.1 million seed round of financing, with participation from Shima Capital, Übermorgen Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Mercy Corps Ventures, Byzantine Marine, Big Brain Holdings and Valor Capital, as well as some angel investors. The funds raised will be used to continue building the core infrastructure of the system and accelerate the launch of government, non-governmental organization and individual projects. Founded in 2021 by Swiss scientist Frederic Fournier and American Web3 expert Michael Kelly, OFP is an open platform that supports forest projects of any size around the world to measure, report and verify their afforestation data. It has cooperated with about 40 afforestation/reforestation projects around the world through its blockchain-based measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) technology.
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Web3 social tool DeBox completes $2 million seed round of financing, led by ABCDE Capital
DeBox, a DID-based Web3 social tool, has completed a total of US$2 million in seed round financing, led by Singapore Web3 fund ABCDE Capital. DeBox is currently launched on the Web3 "Knowledge Planet" and will subsequently move into a full-stack DAO governance platform.
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other
Venom Foundation and Iceberg Capital partner to launch $1 billion Web3 fund, focusing on payment, asset management and other fields
Venom Foundation, a Layer 1 blockchain licensed and regulated by the Abu Dhabi Global Market, has partnered with investment management firm Iceberg Capital to launch a $1 billion venture fund that will invest in pre-seed to Series A funding for Web3 protocols and decentralized applications (dApps), focusing on trends such as payments, asset management, DeFi, banking services, and GameFi. VVF will also leverage Iceberg Capital’s resources to offer an incubation program, assisting projects with marketing, exchange listings, technical, legal, and regulatory support. Former BlackRock executive Peter Knez and seasoned investor Mustafa Kheriba will join the fund’s leadership team. In addition to the fund’s announcement, VVF also made its first investment, leading a $20 million round in Nümi Metaverse, a metaverse platform for creators.
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Not Boring Capital launches $30 million Not Boring Capital Fund III to invest in Web3 and other areas
Not Boring Capital has launched the $30 million Not Boring Capital Fund III, which is now open for investment applications. The fund has a hard cap of $50 million and will invest in fields such as biotechnology, energy, education, Web3 and supply chain, as well as funds launched by VCs such as a16z and Sequoia Capital. In 2022, Not Boring Capital invested in projects including Solana-based real estate digital investment platform Parcl, NFT infrastructure startup Co:Create, digital museum Arkive, AR NFT project Onlybots developer Anima, and Web3 creator tool Bonfire.
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