Making NFTs mainstream: Mintable closes seed round.
In January 2021, we were proud to announce the close of our seed round. The money raised will help us accelerate our mission to democratize access to and spearhead the movement of NFTs going mainstream.
Mintable’s gasless minting, batch minting and royalties built into our Smart Contracts will allow the everyday person to get involved in NFTs without any prior knowledge in coding or the upfront cost of minting an asset. Over the last month, we saw over 150,000 NFTs being created and listed for sale on Mintable, and our platform saw a total of over 165 million page requests.
We would like to thank our investors for the support and the belief they have in our team and our mission as we continue to push the boundaries of NFTs and blockchain technology.
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Zilliqa
Zilliqa is a high-performance, high-security blockchain platform for enterprises and next-generation applications. Developed through academic research and helmed by a team of experienced scientists, engineers, venture creators and leaders in the financial services, Zilliqa addresses limitations in scalability and security, enabling real-world usability across a variety of industries, including finance, digital advertising, and gaming. In 2019, Zilliqa became the first public blockchain platform to be built on sharded architecture, with smart contracts written in the platform’s secure-by-design programming language, Scilla. For more information, visit: www.zilliqa.com.
LuneX Ventures is a spin-out from Singapore based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. LuneX has a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets. Founded by Golden Gate’s former Head of Growth, Kenrick Drijkoningen.
Accelerate DeFi is an eight-week, intensive program designed to give DeFi startups the resources to build, deploy, and grow their platforms. We connect founders to some of the largest traditional trading firms in the world, successful founders in DeFi, VCs, and legal/compliance experts, and help them build product, growth, and regulatory strategies.
DeFiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an active involvement approach. Our focus on DeFi is intricately intertwined with our thesis on DeFi: As software ate the world over the last decade, DeFi will eat traditional finance during the next decade.
We have established ourselves as one of the most well-respected investors and thought leaders in the DeFi space. Our unique perspectives and analysis are recognized as being at the forefront of the DeFi industry.
DeFiance Capital is also the largest DeFi focused crypto fund in Asia with more than US$500m of assets under management (AUM).
Altara Ventures is a technology venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore and investing across Southeast Asia. We invest in pre-A, Series A, and Series B stage companies building innovative solutions in Fintech, Logistics & Mobility, Consumer, Enterprise Software & Deep Tech, Healthcare, and Edtech.
Founded in 2015, Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Beverly Hills, California. The firm seeks to invest in early-stage companies operating in the technology sectors.
Guy Oseary
Guy Oseary has spent his career at the intersection of entertainment and technology. He began in his teens at what was to become Maverick Records, and eventually became chairman and partner. He guided the label to sales of over 100 million units globally. Since 2004, Oseary has been a principal at the top entertainment management company,Untitled Entertainment, which clients include Emma Watson, Penelope Cruz, and Lucy Liu and many others. In 2014 Oseary led a partnership that created the largest music management company in the world — MAVERICK. While Oseary personally manages Madonna and U2, the company’s combined 50+ clients include Paul McCartney, Shania Twain, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj and The Weeknd, and reach over 1 billion people each month.
Alongside his Sound Ventures partner Ashton Kutcher, Oseary has made over 200 investments in companies like Airbnb, Spotify, Uber, Houzz, Robinhood & Neighborly.
TIME Ventures (The investment fund for Marc Benioff)
Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff’s leadership, Salesforce is the fastest-growing top-five enterprise software company and the #1 provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software globally. Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review. For his leadership on equality, Benioff has been honoured by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award.
A member of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) Board of Trustees, Benioff serves as the inaugural Chair of WEF’s Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco.
Benioff received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he is on its Board of Trustees.
Crypto.com was founded in 2016 on a simple belief: it’s a basic human right for everyone to control their money, data and identity. Crypto.com serves over 10 million customers today, with the world’s fastest growing crypto app, along with the Crypto.com Visa Card — the world’s most widely available crypto card, the Crypto.com Exchange and Crypto.com DeFi Wallet.
Crypto.com is built on a solid foundation of security, privacy and compliance and is the first cryptocurrency company in the world to have ISO/IEC 27701:2019, CCSS Level 3, ISO27001:2013 and PCI:DSS 3.2.1, Level 1 compliance, and independently assessed at Tier 4, the highest level for both NIST Cybersecurity and Privacy Frameworks.
Crypto.com is headquartered in Hong Kong with a 900+ strong team. Find out more by visiting https://crypto.com
The world of blockchain can be confusing. With all the data that’s out there, how do you know what’s important? LongHash’s data journalism platform uses narrative storytelling to help you make sense of the numbers. Our analysis is independent and global, with a special emphasis on Asian markets. We publish our original data and visualizations in English, Chinese and Japanese. Asia is the heart of the cryptocurrency world, but an information gap can make it challenging for Western companies to navigate. LongHash is a gateway to Asia. We help Western blockchain projects reach Asian markets, and we help Asian companies go global. We have offices and expertise in critical markets like China, Japan, and Singapore. We offer Asia-based services such as developer outreach, community building, education and marketing, data analysis and product development.Our team of data analysts, storytellers and translators will build interest and excitement about your product in vibrant Asian crypto markets, and help you make informed decisions based on data and analysis that you won’t find anywhere else.
Since the age of 12, Mark Cuban has been a natural businessman. Selling garbage bags door to door, the seed was planted early on for what would eventually become long-term success. After graduating from Indiana University — where he briefly owned the most popular bar in town — Mark moved to Dallas. After a dispute with an employer who wanted him to clean instead of closing an important sale, Mark created MicroSolutions, a computer consulting service. He went on to later sell MicroSolutions in 1990 to CompuServe.
In 1995, Mark and long-time friend Todd Wagner came up with an internet based solution to not being able to listen to Hoosiers Basketball games out in Texas. That solution was Broadcast.com — streaming audio over the internet. In just four short years, Broadcast.com (then Audionet) would be sold to Yahoo for $5.6 billion dollars.
Since his acquisition of the Dallas Mavericks in 2000, he has overseen the Mavs competing in the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history in 2006 — and becoming NBA World Champions in 2011. They are currently listed as one of Forbes’ most valuable franchises in sports.
In addition to the Mavs, Mark is chairman and CEO of AXS tv, one of ABC’s “Sharks” on the hit show Shark Tank, and an investor in an ever-growing portfolio of businesses. He lives in Dallas with his wife Tiffany, daughters Alexis and Alyssa, and son Jake.
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