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$23 Million Fintech Startup Fund Established by Accion Venture Lab
4.9.2019
For the past five years or so, the Fintech sector has grown at a breakneck pace and has quickly become a multibillion-dollar industry spread across the world. The easy availability of data, the advancements in technology and the innovative ideas of a range of Fintech startups have made the industry...
Wallet Giant Blockchain Raising $50 Million Crypto Fund: Report
4.9.2019
Crypto wallet and data provider Blockchain is raising a VC fund to invest in industry startups and cryptocurrencies, according to a report
Franklin Templeton to Track Money Fund Shares on Stellar Blockchain
3.9.2019
Asset manager Franklin Templeton plans to use the Stellar blockchain to record shares in a new money market fund
Asset Management Giant Puts Government Money Market Fund on Stellar
3.9.2019
Franklin Templeton Investments files with the SEC to set up a government money market fund with a focus on blockchain-based shares
Eligma, Crypto Payments Startup Raises 4.3 million Dollars from Bitcoin.com and Pangea Blockchain Fund
3.9.2019
Recently, Eligma has reported that it has completed another newest funding round, by bringing in a total investment of 4 million Euros (4.39 million dollars) from Pangea Blockchain Fund and Bitcoin.com. Eligma announced in its official medium blog. The organization is the developer of Elipay,...
Hedge Fund Eminence Capital Plans to Derail £9 Billion Just Eat Merger
3.9.2019
Over the course of the past few years, food delivery has become one of the biggest tech businesses in the world, and new food delivery applications are being launched all over the world at a breakneck pace. In this regard, the United Kingdom is one of the biggest markets in the world, and one...
Crypto Payments Startup Eligma Raises €4 Million From Bitcoin.com and Pangea Blockchain Fund
3.9.2019
Many retail stores would like to welcome the added business that the crypto community brings, but find that they don’t have the capability to do so within their existing payment infrastructure. One company bridging this gap is Slovenian startup Eligma which is now set to start global...
Billionaire Investor Eyes $1 Billion Crypto Hedge Fund
31.8.2019
Billionaire head of Brevan Howard hedge fund, Alan Howard, is launching a crypto portfolio platform that aims to make stable investments in a notoriously volatile market
Billionaire Alan Howard Eyes $1 Billion Crypto Fund Management Venture
30.8.2019
The asset manager owned by U.K. billionaire Alan Howard plans to launch a new product to help institutional investors navigate the crypto hedge fund space
Central Bank Asks Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund to Wind Up Investments in North America
27.8.2019
The world of investments is no longer only restricted to funds and the investment divisions of the biggest investment banks. In the past, such investors had a huge influence over the capital markets, but over the past few decades, some of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds have become...
Arrington XRP Backs Fund’s $200 Million Raise for Algorand Blockchain
27.8.2019
Arrington XRP, NGC Ventures, among others, have backed a $200 million fund launched by a capital firm dedicated to investing in the Algorand blockchain ecosystem
Algo VC Fund Raises $200 Million to Fast Track Ethereum Rival
27.8.2019
Algo Capital has raised $200 million for a VC fund focused on firms that will help drive adoption of the Algo token for payments
Circle Is Raising a $100 Million Fund for Its Crowdfunding Arm
23.8.2019
Circle is hiring a new general partner to set up a $100 million venture capital fund via SeedInvest
Employees Can Also Own Stakes in Vision Fund 2 as SoftBank Decides to Lend Them $20 Billion For The Purpose
19.8.2019
As everyone knows, SoftBank is possibly the most influential entity in the world when it comes to investing large sums of money on promising startups all over the world. The company has invested billions in some of the most valuable in the world and it did so through its $100 billion investment...
Ripple Is Giving Away 1 Billion XRP in Massive Bid to Fund Online Content
15.8.2019
Ripple is making a major investment in Coil, a media platform that pays content creators XRP
Alcor Life Extension Foundation Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations
15.8.2019
Alcor Life Extension Foundation has revealed the company is accepting bitcoin cash (BCH) donations. Alcor was convinced by Bitcoin.com’s executive chairman Roger Ver to add BCH acceptance, the same person who convinced Alcor to accept BTC payments via Bitpay back in 2014. The nonprofit...
SEC Reserves Its Decision on Exchange-Traded Fund Applications
13.8.2019
In a decision that could further impact the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the security and exchange commission (SEC) has reserved the decision to grant permission to three exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the US. The regulatory body also reserved the decision regarding rule changes...
PR: Decentralized Recurring Crypto Payments System Launched by Monarch Blockchain
13.8.2019
Monarch, the decentralized wallet and suite of crypto services, has launched the first decentralized recurring payments system Until now, there’s been no way to automatically pay merchants in crypto on a recurring basis due to the limits of blockchain-based transactions. To solve this, Monarch...
Big Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Crimes
13.8.2019
Unlike the unfounded narrative that cryptocurrency enables crime, big banks are more than happy to serve unsavory clients if it is lucrative enough for them. The latest example of this is a report that Jeffrey Epstein was apparently using his bank accounts to fund sex trafficking and possibly other...
Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund Invests in Cryptocurrency Exchange
11.8.2019
Mubadala Investment Capital invests in MidChains, a digital currency trading platform set to launch in late 2019 in Abu Dhabi