One-week financing express | 14 projects have been invested, and the total disclosed financing amount is about 81.1 million US dollars (8.21-8.27)

According to incomplete statistics from Odaily Planet Daily, a total of 14 blockchain financing incidents at home and abroad were announced from August 21st to August 27th, a decrease from last week’s data (17 cases), and the total disclosed financing was about 81.1 million USD, down sharply from last week's figure ($190 million).

Last week, the project with the most investment was Prins AI ($22 million), an AI-driven digital human service provider; Ideogram AI, a generative AI tool, attracted a certain amount of attention with its bright lineup of investors.

The following are specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorted according to the announced amount; 2. Excluding fundraising and mergers and acquisitions; 3. * is a "traditional" company whose business involves blockchain):



Blockchain-based AI-driven digital human service provider Prins AI completes $22 million A+ round of financing

On August 21, Prins AI, an AI-driven digital human service provider, announced the completion of a US$22 million A+ round of financing. The new funds will be used to advance deep learning technology, expand the team, strengthen product development capabilities, and optimize marketing and sales.

According to reports, the platform uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to record the training and application records of AI digital humans, and uses a cryptocurrency reward mechanism to enable users to participate in AI digital human training programs. This technology has been applied to multiple scenarios such as radio and television media, brand marketing, e-commerce live broadcast/short video, education and entertainment, AR/VR/AI, NFT/metaverse, etc.

AI tool Ideogram AI completes USD 16.5 million in seed round financing, led by a16z and others

On August 23, Ideogram AI, a generative AI tool, announced the completion of a $16.5 million seed round of financing, led by a16z and Index Ventures, with participation from Raquel Urtasun, Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy, AIX Ventures, and Golden Ventures.

Ideogram AI's mission is to help people become more creative through generative artificial intelligence. It is developing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence tools to make creative expression easy, fun, and efficient.

Open source tool Anytype completes $13.4 million in financing, led by Balderton Capital

On August 23, Anytype, a decentralized local peer-to-peer open source tool, announced the completion of $13.4 million in financing, led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Inflection, Square One, Capital, Protocol Labs, Connect Ventures, New Forge, and Foreword VC.

Mining energy company Nodal Power completes $13 million seed round

On August 22, Nodal Power completed a $13 million seed round of financing to build a renewable energy power plant on a landfill. It is reported that Nodal Power is reducing landfill methane emissions by providing electricity for bitcoin mining data centers.

Maple Finance Closes $5M Funding Led by Tioga Capital and Blocktower Capital

On August 22, Maple Finance, an encrypted institutional lending agreement, completed a US$5 million financing, led by Tioga Capital and Blocktower Capital, and participated by GSR Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Veris Ventures, and The Spartan Group.

Maple Finance will use the funding from the round to fuel the expansion of its lending arm, Maple Direct.

Web3 user interaction platform Raleon completes US$3.8 million in financing, Blockchange and others participate in the investment

On August 24, Raleon, a Web3 user interaction platform, announced the completion of US$3.8 million in financing. Blockchange, Play Ventures, Alliance DAO and Portal Ventures participated in the investment. The funds will be used to help projects and brand development.

DRiP, a digital gift NFT project on the Solana chain, completed a $3 million seed round of financing, led by Placeholder and others

On August 27, DRiP, a digital gift NFT project on the Solana chain, completed a $3 million seed round of financing, led by Placeholder and its partners Chris Burniske, 6th Man Ventures, Anagram and Collab+Currency, Boogle Ventures, B+J Capital , Big Brain Holdings, Interlace Ventures, Solana Ventures, ArbVision and others participated in the investment.

BuidlerDAO Completes $2 Million Angel Round Financing Led by Sequoia China Seed Fund and SevenX Ventures

On August 27, according to official news, Web3 talent and project network BuidlerDAO announced the completion of a $2 million angel round of financing, led by Sequoia China Seed Fund and SevenX Ventures, Bing Ventures, M 77 Ventures, DRK Lab, Gate Labs, MirrorWorld, Conflux, Nicholas Hu (PlanckerDAO), Xiao Zhang (founder of zCloak Network), Paka, Vitalbridge, Inverse Ventures, Doc Labs, etc. participated in the investment.

BuidlerDAO is the Phase 01 project of Sequoia China Entrepreneurship Accelerator YUÈ, and has received invitations from Hong Kong Science and Technology Park and Cyberport at the same time.

Hungri Games closes $1.9M funding round at $23M valuation led by Bogazici Ventures

On August 23, Web3 game developer Hungri Games announced the completion of a US$1.9 million seed round of financing at a valuation of US$23 million, led by Bogazici Ventures, Roko Finance, Preston Labs, Triple Dragon, Erol Ozmandiraci, Oyunfor, Caglan Tanriverdi and The Sandbox Co-founder Sebastien Borget and others participated in the investment.

Hungri Games will use this round of financing to accelerate the development of the Web3 role-playing horse racing game Metahorse Unity.

Decentralized social project Friend 3.Group received USD 500,000 Pre-Seed round of financing, KoinSaati, JRR Crypto and others participated in the investment

On August 27, the decentralized social project Friend 3.Group received USD 500,000 in Pre-Seed round of financing, with participation from Turkish encryption community KoinSaati, JRR Crypto and other institutions.

Friend 3 is a decentralized application that focuses on free pricing for paid groups. It also allows creators to customize the price curvature, and supports all social platforms that are not limited to X (formerly Twitter). Compared with friend.tech, it has made many optimizations in Web3 login, group chat function, price rate customization, terminal compatibility, privacy protection, etc.

Mina ecological DEX LuminaDEX completes strategic financing, Jump Crypto participates in investment

On August 24, Mina ecological DEX LuminaDEX announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing. The Mina Foundation, Jump Crypto, BigBrain Holdings, and Mina development team O( 1) Labs participated in the investment. The financing amount has not yet been disclosed.

It is reported that LuminaDEX achieves privacy protection support by supporting zkSNARKs and MPC technology; supports zkKYC to achieve compliance, enhance scalability and anti-MEV capabilities.

Metaverse game developer Irreverent Labs completes new funding round led by Samsung Next

On August 24, metaverse game developer Irreverent Labs completed a new round of financing led by Samsung Next. The financing amount was not disclosed. It is reported that the reason why Irreverent Labs chose to strengthen cooperation with Samsung is that Irreverent hopes to get more contact with potential customers in the Samsung Next portfolio.

Crypto exchange BitOasis completes a new round of financing, with CoinDCX, Jump Capital and others participating

On August 25, BitOasis, an encryption exchange in the Middle East and North Africa region, completed a new round of financing, with CoinDCX, Wamda Capital and Jump Capital participating.

Launched in 2016, BitOasis provides crypto trading services to users in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. In 2021, BitOasis completed a $30 million Series B round of financing led by Jump Capital and Wamda, with participation from Alameda Research, Global Founders Capital, Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, and NXMH.

Crypto Accounting Solutions Provider Cryptoworth Completes Strategic Funding Led by CMT Digital

On August 25, according to official news, Cryptoworth, an encryption accounting solution provider, announced that it has completed strategic financing. CMT Digital led the investment, and Kyber Ventures, Saison Capital, ODA Capital and Polygon Ventures participated in the investment. The specific financing amount has not been disclosed yet. The new financing will be used to accelerate the market expansion of Cryptoworth's enterprise digital asset accounting solutions.