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Bitcoin tech firm Blockstream raises $210M at $3B valuation
Blockstream Corporation Inc. said today it has closed a $210 million funding round that values the Canadian bitcoin infrastructure outfit at $3.2 billion. The Series B round was led by U.K.-based investment management company Baillie Gifford and Hong Kong-based iFinex Inc., the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. Blockstream also announced that it has acquired the ...
Fetch.ai launches platform for AI-generated collaborative NFT art
The Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab Fetch.ai today announced the launch of its new AI-controlled nonfungible token art generation platform. Colearn NFT Art will allow users collectively to create and own NFT artwork generated by training a machine learning algorithm. More than 100 artists can create an abstract composition together and collectively own the AI-generated work of ...
PayPal expands its cryptocurrency service to the UK
PayPal Holdings Inc. announced today the launch of a new service that will allow customers in the United Kingdom the ability to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency within its app. According to the company, the new service will roll out this week and customers will gain access to four different types of cryptocurrencies: bitcoin, Ethereum, ...
Visa buys CryptoPunk NFT art for $150,000
Visa Inc. announced today that it spent $150,000 to purchase a piece of artwork represented by a nonfungible token named CryptoPunk 7610. The announcement was made by Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, in a blog post who spoke to the purchase as an investment in the NFT market and Visa’s interest in the ...
Facebook announces ‘Horizon Workrooms’ VR remote work app
Facebook Inc. today announced the launch of the beta test of Horizon Workrooms, a virtual reality remote collaboration app that works on the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headset by providing virtual meeting rooms. Workrooms comes at a time when more teams are separated by physical distance due to the COVID-19 pandemic and find themselves working ...
MobileCoin snags $66M for privacy-focused payments
MobileCoin Inc., a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency payments company focused on mobile devices, said today it has raised $66 million in funding to develop its payment system. Numerous investors joined the Series B round including Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Berggruen Holdings, BlockTower Capital, General Catalyst and others. This round brings the company’s total funding to $107 million. ...
Blogging startup Hashnode raises $6.7M to give developers a community
Hashnode, a blogging platform built for the global software developer community, announced today it has raised $6.7 million in early funding led by Salesforce Ventures. The Series A funding round was also joined by Sierra Ventures, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge and Accel Partners, as well as a number of angel investors. The fundraise follows a ...
Rainforest adds no-code test automation solution with a free-forever plan
Rainforest QA Inc. announced today the launch of a no-code test automation solution with its free-forever plan designed to make testing accessible to any employee regardless of technical skill. Rainforest is best known for creating a platform that crowdsources a community of human testers from around the world to test software at scale. Testers follow English ...
Monday.com launches workdocs, raising collaborative documents to a new level
Monday.com Ltd., a project management software startup, today announced the launch of monday workdocs, a new capability for its software suite that enables organizations to collaborate within documents. Monday.com provides what it calls a work operating system, or Work OS, which organizations can use to build their own setup to manage every aspect of their ...
Crypto staking services provider Figment raises $50M
Crypto “staking” services provider Figment today announced it raised $50 million in new funding led by Senator Investment Group and Liberty City Ventures to grow its team and diversify the number of blockchains the company supports. Galaxy Digital, Anchorage, Declaration Partner, Bonfire Ventures and GSR also participated in the Series B round. Figment has raised ...