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Congrats to all the teams for their fundraises! If you enjoyed this post, please Comment, Like, and Repost! And give me a follow @mikewchan for more crypto and fundraising content. Thanks for reading!
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5. Yupp AI model discovery and comparison platform Yupp raised $33M in a Seed round led by a16z crypto. Yupp lets users compare answers from hundreds of leading AI models, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama, and rewards them with crypto incentives for providing feedback and helping improve model evaluation Yupp aims to be THE AI model evaluation layer with its incentivized crowdsourcing of human feedback
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4. Silhouette Hyperliquid-native DEX Silhouette raised $3M in a Pre-seed round led by RockawayX with participation from Amber Group, Hivemind, and others. Silhouette is known as a "shield exchange" and provides privacy-preserving DeFi trading by shielding users' strategies from exposure and front-running The Hyperliquid eco is heating up!
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3. NuConstruct On‑chain orderflow execution layer NuConstruct raised $6M in a Seed round led by Cyber Fund with participation from Maven 11 Capital, Greenfield Capital, DCG, and Eden Block. Their primary product TOOL (Trustless Orderflow Operations Layer) aims to revolutionize Ethereum's transaction supply chain to achieve 1-second execution for all transactions, end-to-end transaction privacy, MEV searching, and more
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2. Noah Stablecoin cross-border payments platform Noah raised $22M in a Seed round led by LocalGlobe with participation from Felix Capital, FJ Labs, Joe Lonsdale, and David Helgason. Noah offers businesses a unified API to move money instantly, transparently, and at low cost across more than 70 countries and 50 currencies, including stables. Noah aims to render traditional SWIFT-based transfers obsolete
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1. Turnkey Crypto private key management platform Turnkey raised $30M in a Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto with participation from Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Faction, and others. Turnkey provides secure, flexible, and scalable wallet infrastructure, enabling developers to create wallets, sign transactions, and automate on-chain actions through a simple API. Turnkey already supports over 50 million wallets, and the funds will be used to grow even faster!
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Happy Friday! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises for the week ending 6/13/25:
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Congrats to all the teams for their fundraises! If you enjoyed this post, please Comment, Like, and Repost! And give me a follow @mikewchan for more crypto and fundraising content. Thanks for reading!
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4. HeyElsa AI-powered crypto co-pilot HeyElsa raised a $3M round led by M31 Capital with participation from Base Ecosystem Fund, MH Ventures, and others. HeyElsa is designed to help users discover opportunities, trade smarter, and automate interactions with blockchain through autonomous agents and natural language commands via text and voice. We are getting much closer to AI agents doing all of our trading for us!
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5. Neutral Trade On-chain multi-strategy hedge fund Neutral Trade raised $2M in a funding round from Ergonia, Skyland Ventures, MonkeDAO, and others. Neutral Trade is an on-chain multi-strategy hedge fund built by experienced quantitative analysts and traders from leading institutions like Goldman Sachs and top global hedge funds. It has already attracted over $20 million in TVL and generated significant profits for users. Everything, even multi-strategy hedge funds, is coming on chain!
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2. 3Jane Uncollateralized DeFi lending platform 3Jane raised $5.2M in a Seed round led by Paradigm with participation from Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and many others. 3Jane is a credit-based money market protocol on Ethereum that enables algorithmic, real-time unsecured USDC credit lines for yield farmers, traders, businesses, and AI agents by underwriting against verifiable financial proofs - including DeFi, CEX, bank assets, and future cash flows - instead of requiring on-chain collateral. Uncollateralized onchain lending is the holy grail…and 3Jane uses a form of onchain reputation for their loans!
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3. IOST Modular RWA infrastructure IOST raised a $21M Strategic round from DWF Labs, Presto Labs, and Rollman Management Digital IOST is multi-chain Web3 infra focused on real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and includes a high-performance L1, EVM-compatible subnets, and a permissionless deployment model tailored to real-world asset issuance and compliant DeFi. RWAs so hot right now.
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1. Shards Protocol On-chain reputation and rewards protocol Shards Protocol (Aura) raised $2M from Animoca Brands, Kyber Ventures, Yield Guild Games (YGG), and others. Shards Protocol is developing Aura, a decentralized reputation layer for Web3 that captures and analyzes users' on-chain activities, such as staking, trading, and community participation, to generate visible, verifiable reputation scores and unlock rewards. If onchain reputation can be solved, so much can be unlocked.
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Happy Friday! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises for the week ending 6/6/25:
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We just published the Deep Ventures May newsletter! We cover: - Big updates for Panther Protocol and Exa Protocol - Our coverage in the NY Times and NY Post - Video for our Building on Bitcoin panel And more! Let us know what you think! https://blog.deepventures.io/p/deep-ventures-monthly-newsletter-may-2025
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A bunch of companies are holding BTC in their treasury. Some are launching ETH treasuries! A Cronos ETF is being created! Things are getting weird around here.
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Congrats to all the teams for their fundraises! If you enjoyed this post, please Comment, Like, and Repost! And give me a follow @mikewchan for more crypto and fundraising content. Thanks for reading!
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5. Assisterr AI Network of specialized small language models Assisterr AI raised $2.8M from Google for Startups, Outlier Ventures, Web3com Ventures, and others. Assisterr's innovation is in its focus on Small Language Models (SLMs) rather than the massive, general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Grok, and other huge companies. SLMs are cheaper to run, easier to customize, and can be fine-tuned for highly specific tasks. Love the focus on smaller, specific models!
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3. Asigna Bitcoin multi-sig platform Asigna raised $3M in a Seed round led by Hivemind and Tykhe Ventures with participation from Portal Ventures, Sats Ventures, Trust Machines, and Bitcoin Frontier Fund. Asigna is a non-custodial smart multisig vault designed for secure Bitcoin asset management, enabling teams, DAOs, and institutions to collectively manage shared Bitcoin treasuries and interact directly with Bitcoin DeFi and L2s. Love the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem!
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4. Donut AI-powered crypto browser Donut raised $7M in a Pre-seed round led by BITKRAFT Ventures, Hack VC, and HongShan, with participation from Sky9 Capital, Matrix Partners, and others. Donut is an agentci crypto browser built on Solana that integrates a native crypto wallet and DEX access, enabling users and embedded AI agents to autonomously execute on-chain transactions such as trading, yield farming, and portfolio optimization directly from the browser. The importance of browsers to onboard new crypto users will be huge!
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