# Venture Capital News

Chainanalysis has gathered $30 million to open a new and research lab in London to spread its presence in the United Kingdom. Chainalysis unveiled real-time Anti-money laundering software Chainalysis KYT (Know Your Transaction) last year and is now expanding towards cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins according to a February 12, 2019 blog post....

Japanese IM giant LINE has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nomura Holdings to foster the use of blockchain technology at large, this according to a press release published January 30, 2019. Blockchain Solidarity The Nomura Group is a global financial services behemoth which provides services to individual, institutional,...

According to an article published by Bloomberg, on December 13, 2018, Basis, a stablecoin startup funded by the likes of Bain Capital Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz has decided to call it a day due to the persistent ambiguity regarding classification of digital currencies as securities. Crypto Industry in Dire Straits...

Dapper Labs, the company behind the world's first and most successful consumer blockchain product, CryptoKitties, has raised $15 million in financing led by Venrock, in an aim to bring more users to the blockchain, the company announced in a press release on November 1, 2018. Valuation Doubled in Venrock-Led Fundraising...

Binance, a blockchain company that runs one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has announced an investment from Vertex Ventures to open a crypto-to-fiat exchange in Singapore, Bloomberg reported on October 23, 2018. Vertex Invests in Binance to Expand in Singapore Vertex Ventures, the venture capital arm of...