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Ready Player Me raises $13M to be the avatar ‘passport to the metaverse’
Ready Player Me, a startup that makes 3D avatars for users to use in virtual worlds, announced Tuesday that it closed $13 million in funding led by Taavet+Sten to expand its operations. The company’s mission is to become the “connective passport to the metaverse,” which allows users to create custom identities for themselves and that ...
Blockchain-enabled remittance startup Almond Finance raises $2M
Almond Finance, a blockchain-based startup enabling cross-border funds transfers using mobile wallets, announced Monday it has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by Morningside Group. The company uses blockchain technology, a network of cryptographically secured distributed ledgers, to connect financial institutions and users globally. Almond’s platform allows international money transfers between institutions ...
Crypto exchange Kraken wants to let people borrow against their NFTs
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is developing a way for people to use nonfungible tokens as collateral for loans, the exchange’s founder and Chief Executive Jesse Powel told Bloomberg News on Friday in an interview. NFTs are blockchain-based technology that allows people to buy, sell and trade digital assets such as art, music and video game items, with ...
NFT-backed loan platform Arcade raises $15M
Arcade, a platform that allows users to use nonfungible tokens as collateral for loans, announced Wednesday that it raised $15 million in new funding to expand its team and platform, which is already in private beta. Investors participating in the Series A round included Pantera Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Franklin Templeton Blockchain Fund, Golden Tree ...
Space Metaverse raises $7M to build virtual worlds for arts and commerce
Space Metaverse today announced it has raised $7 million in a funding round to develop its metaverse project that allows users to design and their own virtual commerce spaces for gaming, arts, fashion, music and more. The funding round was supported by Coinfund, Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, Digital Currency Group, HOF Capital and other investors. ...
Blockchain interoperability protocol provider Multichain raises $60M in seed funding
Blockchain cross-chain protocol provider Multichain, formerly AnySwap, announced today it has raised $60 million in a seed funding to advance its mission of building “the ultimate router for Web 3.0” decentralized networks. Binance Labs led the financing round. Also participating in the round were Sequoia China, IDG Capital, Three Arrows Capital, DeFiance Capital, Circle Ventures, Tron ...
Blockchain infrastructure firm Figment raises $110M at a $1.4B valuation
Blockchain infrastructure provider Figment today announced a $110 million funding round to expand its services for the application layer of Web 3.0 decentralized networks at a $1.4 billion valuation. The Series C round, which follows a $50 million Series B round in August, was led by software investment firm Thoma Brovo. Counterpoint Global, Binance Labs, ...
Apple releases Swift Playgrounds 4 with support for app creation on iPad
Apple Inc. announced Wednesday the official release of Swift Playgrounds 4, the newest version of an app that teaches developers to code, which added support for creating iPad and iPhone apps directly on the iPad without the need for a Mac. Swift Playgrounds provides a highly visual way for new and old developers to learn ...
How the National Cancer Institute is using Google Cloud to support researchers around the globe
The U.S. National Cancer Institute is using Google Cloud to connect researchers all over the world to cancer data sets along with powerful analytical tools to study the data quickly and securely. The NCI provides a cloud-based research commons with its Cloud Resources, which allows data scientists to analyze cancer datasets in a cloud environment. ...
ManageXR raises $4M seed funding to enable enterprise AR/VR device management
ManageXR, a platform for managing virtual and augmented reality devices, today announced it has raised $4 million in seed funding. The San Francisco-based startup said the round, led by Rally Ventures, is aimed at helping small, midsized and enterprise customers facilitate the expansion and management of their AR/VR device fleets at large scale. That includes ...