Tag: funding

Payment-Centric Fintech Startup Innoviti Sets Eyes on $25M Funding to Promote Business 

Innoviti processes over $10 billion in transactions annually across more than 2,000 cities in India.  Innoviti Technologies, an Indian fintech startup, is exploring a fresh funding round that could potentially value the company at approximately $350 million, Bloomberg reported on June 28, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, the company seeks to raise around $25 million in the financing round to boost its business offerings and increase its market dominance. The startup, backed by renowned venture capitalists including Catamaran Ventures, the investment arm of Infosys Ltd,…

Web3 Gaming Studio Pixion Games Closes $5.5M in Seed Funding

Pixion plans to put the funds towards Fableborne, the studio’s action-based role-playing game that allows players to interact with on-chain assets built atop the Avalanche network. Kam Punia, founder and CEO of Pixion Games, told CoinDesk he’s hoping to grow the game by building out its tech stack as well as hiring for roles across the leadership team. Source

Startup Kaito Gets $87.5M Valuation in New Funding to Build AI Search Engine for Crypto

The Kaito search engine launched in Beta mode to 35,000 waitlisted users on June 20, according to a company LinkedIn post. It combines large language models (LLMs) with real-time access to data from the web, including Twitter, Discord, Telegram, governance forums, Medium, Mirror, industry research, news, Kaito’s proprietary Twitter Space and podcast transcripts, as well as onchain data. “Even with plugins, ChatGPT today does not connect to many off-chain crypto-specific information silos or on-chain data, thereby unable to meet people’s needs in the [crypto] space,” said Yu Hu, Kaito’s founder…

Decentralized Chess Game Secures $1.5M in Funding

Anichess, made in partnership between Animoca Brands and Chess.com-owned Play Magnus Group (PMG) and its Champions Chess Tour, is a community-driven, free-to-play game that’s billed as having “new strategic layers powered by magical spells.” Anichess combines the core rules of a classic chess game with a so-called “spell mechanic” that includes a range of offensive, defensive and counter tactics. There will also be esports-like elements added through challenges. Source

Arkon Energy Enters U.S. With Ohio Data Center Site Purchase, $26M in Fresh Funding

The company, which uses renewable electricity to mine bitcoin (BTC), also raised $26 million in fresh capital from Sandton Capital Partners, which it intends to use to fund an “aggressive expansion” into North America, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk on Tuesday. That’s on top of the $28 million it raised in November, when it bought Hydrokraft AS, a renewable energy-based data center in Norway. Source

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s ResearchHub Completes $5M Series A Funding Round

The startup is setting up a platform that will reward (in crypto) anyone who contributes new knowledge to the global science community ResearchHub, a crypto-based startup focused on advancing scientific research, may have just concluded a $5 million funding round. According to an official announcement, the round was led by Open Source Software Capital. Participation in the funding also came from Guillermo Rauch, Replit’s Amjad Masad, and RedHat’s Bob Young among others. ResearchHub to Deploy New Model of Funding According to ResearchHub co-founders Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Patrick Joyce,…

Mistral AI Completes $113M Seed Funding Round, Set to Take AI Space by Storm

By the company’s estimates, its first models for text-based generative AI will be released by 2024. Four-week-old artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Mistral AI, has raised $113 million in seed funding. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and saw participation from JCDecaux Holding, Motier Ventures, and Rodolphe Saadé in France. International VCs such as Exor Ventures from Italy, Belgium’s Sofina, and many others also partook in the round. The seed round has now brought the valuation of the Paris-based firm to $260 million, positioning itself as a rival to…

AI startup by ex-Meta and Google researchers raises $113M in seed funding

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A brand new artificial intelligence (AI) startup dedicated to rival ChatGPT creator, OpenAI, raised $113 million in seed funding, bringing up its valuation to $260 million within two months of inception. Former AI researchers — previously working for Google DeepMind and Meta — co-founded Mistral AI, in May 2023 to develop open-source generative AI models. Arthur Mensch, the co-founder and CEO of the company said that the first round of funding “will give us the resources and network we need to start rolling out a new model of generative artificial…

Blockchain-Based, AI Compute Protocol Gensyn Closes $43M Series A Funding Round Led by a16z Crypto

With its latest round, Gensyn has raised more than $50 million and the company said it would use the fresh capital to accelerate the introduction of the protocol and to expand its workforce, including the addition of protocol and machine learning engineers. Prominent investment firms CoinFund, Canonical Crypto, Protocol Labs, Eden Block and a variety of AI and crypto venture capitalists and angels joined a16z in the round. Source