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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Coinbase raised.
Companies Coinbase acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Armstrong | CEO | TechCrunch Venture |
| Surojit Chatterjee | CPO | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Coinbase. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Startup Daily profiles Crystal aOS, Joni Pirovich's crypto compliance platform, among Techstars Sydney's 2025 cohort ahead of its Demo the Future event, covering the product and why the accelerator invested.
Decentralised exchange GTE has raised a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm, positioning itself against Uniswap and PancakeSwap with an order-book model and citing a trillion dollars of 2025 trading volume.
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Weekly roundup covering several startup acquisitions, a clutch of venture rounds across AI and other sectors, a Clay employee share sale, and Marathon Venture Capital's new fund close.
A fintech roundup: Bench's closure and sale to Employer.com, multiple acquisitions, fresh raises at Float Financial, Open Ledger, NomuPay and Buk, Robinhood's regulator settlement, and Groww's listing plans.
0x, a decentralized trading protocol, has closed a $70m Series B led by Greylock, with Pantera, OpenSea and Jump Crypto joining; proceeds fund cross-chain work, new chain integrations and its Matcha search engine.
Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup covering record Australian VC fund raises, several green-tech startup funding rounds, Deliveroo's administration, the FTX collapse, and takeover offers for ELMO and Nitro.
Also Techboard
A New Zealand venture firm has launched a crypto and web3-focused fund led by a newly hired general partner, with a first close planned for June, while its existing fund continues raising toward a final close.
AfterWork Ventures reflects on backing Stropro in February 2020, explaining why the platform opening structured bank products to sophisticated investors fits its unbundling-of-banks thesis and Asia-Pacific ambitions.
US investor Tim Draper has led a pre-seed round in Australian drone reforestation startup Lord of the Trees, raising US$1.25 million (A$1.67 million) at a A$7 million valuation.
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Aura Ventures maps the Web3 ecosystem, separating private blockchains from four public layers, and argues genuine value will migrate to scaling and application layers, citing its portfolio firm Lygon and Australian protocol Synthetix.
New Zealand data startup Segna has received US$125,000 from Y Combinator before starting its accelerator program, taking total funds raised to NZ$880,000 with backing from three venture funds.
Weekly venture roundup covering Scalapay's giant series A, numerous Australian raises, acquisitions of Clipchamp, Paidy and CipherTrace, Houseparty's closure, crypto regulation developments, and Atlassian appointing a Cloudflare founder as director.
Commentary piece on VC exit strategies (IPO, trade sale, secondary sale) referencing recent Australian tech M&A deals and venture funding rounds including Sendle, UpGuard, Sonder and others.
Weekly roundup covering CBA's strategic stakes in Little Birdie and Amber, several Australian funding rounds, Zip's BNPL acquisitions, Tritium's planned NASDAQ listing, Amazon's MGM purchase and other global tech news.
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Tiger Global led a $40 million round into Stake, an Australian zero-brokerage trading platform, with DST Global partners joining. Previously bootstrapped, the company will use the capital to expand internationally.
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Ignition Lane's weekly column rounds up Australian raises including Octopus Deploy, Neara, Mr Yum and Archistar, ThinkTilt's sale to Atlassian, Latitude's ASX listing, and US moves by Tiger Global, UiPath and Squarespace.
Also Startup Daily
Daily tech roundup covering Epic Games' billion-dollar raise, Degreed reaching unicorn valuation with a Series D, Gryphon's carbon-neutral bitcoin mining funding, Apple's announced event, and DigitalX's share surge.
Also The Mandarin
Ignition Lane's weekly roundup covers Canva's US$71 million raise, several Australian payments acquisitions and mergers, local raises by Cyble, Enboarder, Rendr and Basiq, plus overseas deals including Plaid, Box, Ramp and Coinbase's listing.
UK open banking platform TrueLayer has raised a US$70 million Series D led by Addition, with existing backers joining, to fund global expansion and grow its engineering and commercial teams.
Also Australian FinTech
Weekly roundup by Ignition Lane covering Vend's sale to Lightspeed, Roblox's listing, raises at Pipe, DataGrail, Mastt, Sonnant and Corvus, LaunchVic's new fund for women founders, and Scale Investors' new co-CEOs.
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Weekly newsletter rounds up venture news: multiple Australian and regional VC fund closes, startup raises including Brighte and Judo, acquisitions of eNett and Sine, neobank collapses, and new revenue-based lenders.
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A blockchain wallet venture for the unbanked took the top honour at a Melbourne social-impact pitch night, while a food-rescue app won the audience vote and keeps an equity crowdfunding campaign running past its minimum goal.
Also Australian FinTech
Indian consumer-lending startup ZestMoney announced a $20 million Series B led by Quona Capital, with Reinventure joining as a new backer and existing investors returning, taking its total funding to $42 million.
Daily venture briefing rounding up fresh startup funding rounds, two venture fund closes, the BitTorrent and Flipgrid acquisitions, departures from Social Capital, a Khosla hire and other technology news.
Venture roundup noting General Catalyst's new billion-dollar fund, several startup raises including Myriota's Series A, Cake Technologies' sale to American Express, Uber's Southeast Asia sale to Grab, and a TCV COO appointment.
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