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Thank you to Christophe de la Celle and the entire Selini team for hosting an amazing summit last week! If you didn't have the chance to attend, the summit focused on the trifecta of value alignment: What funds of funds, funds, and founders (the #3Fs?) need to make LPs happy and scale important tech. The TLDR is 1. Funds of funds find venture fund operational excellence scarce, and prefer even low-raise track records to fortify their confidence in fund managers; many believe that more hedge funds should be started, rather than venture funds. 2. Fund of funds LPs are prioritizing liquid investment strategies over locked up capital with looming geopolitical concerns in a global election year 3. Founders don't find the majority of venture funds a value add to their cap-table; where venture funds sometimes grow tiresome of the founder addiction to 'branded' funds 4. Institutional involvement in digital assets is happening - from Nomura, to SoftBank Group Corp. and many others, and the digital asset management stack is quickly evolving

💰 peaq raises $15M in an undisclosed funding round led by Borderless Capital and Generative Ventures. Other investors in the round include The Spartan Group, Animoca Ventures, NGC Ventures, DWF Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Fundamental Labs, TRGC, HV Capital, Cogitent Ventures, CMCC Global, CRIT Ventures, Inc. and Agnostic Fund. #Peaq network enables machines to provide and render services and become fully self-sufficient by leveraging p2p technologies such as Machine NFTs, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and novel economic mechanisms to align the incentives of all Economy of Things stakeholders, namely; machines, machine owners, manufacturers, individuals/users, organizations and investors, while incentivising the deployment of more machines to the network. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dA53DPNK

The Road to IPO: A Rasan Story What does it take for you, as a startup or an individual, to start or scale up from startup to IPO? Basmah Alsinaidi (Managing Partner and Head of Asset Management, Impact46) and Moayad Alfallaj (CEO, Rasan) walked us through the challenges and wins behind what Rasan has become today. 📍 Fintech Fusion. Can’t find your way around the stages? Use the AI map: https://bit.ly/4dKhSc0 #ReimaginingFinancialServices #BeyondBorderBeyondTime

Here, FinTech Magazine has taken a look at the Top 10 startups that are making a name for themselves in the sector. https://lnkd.in/e5gMMQgt #fintech #startups #VCfunding #digitalassets

REG A+ #crowdfunding is the innovative pathway for nano-cap companies to get to #NASDAQ as an IPO onramp --- this is going to be a great conference and I'm excited to be a speaker on the Sowing the Seeds panel. We will be talking about preparing your Reg A+ or RegCF to get a fast start and traction early on. #TheRegAandCrowdfundingConference There are over 100 issuers pursuing Reg A or Reg CF transactions who are registered to attend the event. One day with 4 keynote presentations, 7 panel discussions, and 31 speakers, as well as two networking breaks, breakfast, lunch, and cocktail party. Plus, new this year, 15 companies will give a 3-minute quick pitch. Get all the Deets.... https://lnkd.in/edHeGcuv You can use discount code CFPA20 The Reg A & Crowdfunding Conference June 20, 2024 Westchester Country Club, NY The 5th annual Reg A & Crowdfunding Conference is the largest gathering place for issuers, online investment platforms, brokers, legal and financial advisors, investors, and other dealmakers involved in Reg A and crowdfunding deals.

#fundingalert 💼Company: Midas 💰Funding: $8.75Million ⚡Round: New Round 👥Investors: Framework Ventures, BlockTower Capital, HV Capital, Hack VC, GSR Ventures, Axelar Foundation, PEER VC, FJ Labs. Midas, a German company with limited liability, is an asset tokenization protocol that issues tokenized real-world assets as permissionless ERC-20 tokens. All underlying assets of Midas-issued tokens are held in segregated accounts with institutional custodians. It’s flagship product is the mTBILL, a permissionless ERC-20 token which tracks short-dated U.S. Treasury Bills (“T-Bills”). This provides decentralized finance (“DeFi”) investors access to a yield-bearing token, backed by U.S. government debt. Dennis D. Vance Spencer Thomas Klocanas Read more - https://lnkd.in/gF9FV93s To share your startup story write us on - contact@startuprise.co.uk #Midas #germanstartup #tokenization #platform #funding #startupnews #fundingnews #news #eustartup #startuprise

I am honored to present at Venture Summit West. We became one of the few FinTech companies to earn a coveted presentation slot at the 11th annual Venture Summit West, hosted by youngStartup Ventures. The Summit connects founders of the hottest emerging companies with an exclusive audience of venture capitalists, corporate investors, private investors, investment bankers, and strategic partners. A major trigger point for the upcoming growth step of Leondrino is the EU MiCA regulation which is expected to foster stablecoin finance. MiCA will become effective in 2024. Coming from utility token as initial form of corporate currencies, Leondrino is preparing its platform and organization to enable the highest classes of Leondrino tokens to serve as the preferred pathway for the issuance of corporate stablecoins. #innovation #startup #vsw24 #VentureSummitWest #youngstartupventures #stablecoin

💰 Shogun raises $6.9M in a seed funding round led by Polychain Capital and dao5. Other investors in the round include Arrington Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Maelstrom and Build a Bera.   #Shogun is an intent-centric protocol that aims to maximize trader extractable value (#TEV) via optimized orderflow and complete chain abstraction. Shogun offers superior #UX for traders and #LPs in that the complexities of cross-chain bridging and liquidity management are removed for the individual. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dHQJ6enz

Here, FinTech Magazine has taken a look at the Top 10 startups that are making a name for themselves in the sector. https://lnkd.in/eGQdsU-D #fintech #startups #VCfunding #digitalassets

💰 Smart Transactions raises $5.5M in a seed funding round. Investors in the round include Shima Capital, Gate.io, BACKED VC, Signum Capital , Hack VC, Chorus One, Antalpha, Breed, Tané. #SmartTransactions is a framework for creating and executing transactions, operated by #decentralized solvers. It allows users to define specific conditions that determine when and how their transactions are executed. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dRy6iX6n