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Disclosed deals

Every published round FTX took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
Immutable	Series B	15 Sep 2021	$82m	Participant	King River Capital Prosus Ventures Galaxy Interactive Fabric Ventures APEX Capital VaynerFund BITKRAFT Ventures AirTree Ventures Reinventure Group	SmartCompany (Thu 6 Oct 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 8 Apr 2022), SmartCompany (Thu 24 Mar 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 4 Feb 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 4 Oct 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 20 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Mon 20 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 15 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 15 Sep 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 15 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 15 Sep 2021)

Portfolio

Companies FTX has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Immutable		15 Sep 2021, Series B	1	0

Funds

Fund closes reported for FTX, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for FTX yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies FTX has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal FTX did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of FTX is recorded as having been acquired.

Name	Role	Sources
Sam Bankman-Fried	Founder	Startup Daily (Wed 4 Oct 2023), Startup Daily (Tue 20 Dec 2022), Startup Daily (Thu 1 Dec 2022)

Coverage

Stories naming FTX. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

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Chipper Cash Becomes A Unicorn & Mr Yum raises US$65m Series A led by Tiger Global

TEN13 newsletter reporting Chipper Cash's US$150m unicorn round, Mr Yum's Tiger Global-led Series A, and new investments in Payhippo, Preezie, Pushas and Heaps Normal, plus portfolio updates.

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DOG'S BREAKFAST: Pet Circle's $75m raise from US VC a rare highlight for Australian startups amid a 42% fall in funding for September quarter

Cut Through Ventures' quarterly analysis shows Australian startup funding down 42% year-on-year at A$739 million over 77 deals, with Pet Circle's $75 million Series D from Prysm Capital the period's largest round.

Also SmartCompany·RenewEconomy·@AuManufacturing

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Ignition Lane's Great Big Annual Wrap

Ignition Lane's year-end review of 2022 tech news: shifting VC sentiment, record Australian fund raises, grocery delivery failures and shutdowns, local M&A, crypto fallout, awards, and global stories from Twitter to ChatGPT.

Also AgFunderNews

Seed $500k

CoinJar sheds jobs in wake of FTX collapse

Crypto exchange CoinJar, backed by Blackbird, cut roughly a fifth of its Melbourne staff after FTX's failure; the piece recalls its 2013 half-million-dollar seed round led by Blackbird.

Startup Daily Thu 1 Dec 2022 CoinJar Alameda Research FTX Immutable Swyftx Blackbird Ventures Asher Tan Sam Bankman-Fried

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The Ignition Lane Wrap: Sunrise. Demise. No more pies.

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

5 deals

Daily Crunch: Nigerian startup that stored its 'day-to-day operational budget' on FTX announces staff cuts

TechCrunch roundup: FTX fallout hits Nestcoin and SoftBank's stake, while Quix, Joepegs, Vow, Faraday Future and Butter raise, plus items on Twitter, VLC, DoorDash, Hulu, Google and Apple.

TechCrunch Venture Mon 14 Nov 2022 Butter Faraday Future Vow Amazon Apple Bird Carta DoorDash Google Hulu Klarna SoftBank Twitter VLC Avalanche FTX Gradient Nolan Church

Also AgFunderNews

Fund close $500m

Telstra Ventures banks $500 million for Fund III focused on 'c'

Telstra Ventures has completed a third fund worth half a billion dollars, drawing on dozens of new and existing backers, with early cheques already written into fifteen companies including FTX and Forage.

Startup Daily Tue 13 Sep 2022 Telstra Ventures Auth0 BigCommerce Box Closedloop CrowdStrike Docusign Enable Forage FTX LambdaTest Snap Strata Whispir HarbourVest Partners Telstra Guy Wylie Matthew Koertge

Also Startup Daily·Techboard

Series C US$110m

Alternative Investment Platform Altive Co-leads Successful Series C Financing of US$ 120 Million for Swiss Digital Asset Bank SEBA

Swiss digital asset bank SEBA completed a CHF 110 million Series C in January 2022, co-led by Altive, Ordway Selections and Summer Capital, with DeFi Technologies, Alameda Research and existing investor Julius Baer participating.

Wholesale Investor Wed 26 Jan 2022 Blackstone FTX Morgan Stanley Alameda Research Altive Cheney Cheng

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Gaming startup Immutable scores $82 million for NFT trading tech

Blockchain gaming company Immutable has raised an $82 million Series B led by BITKRAFT Ventures to grow its NFT trading platform and games, with King River, AirTree and several other investors taking part.

SmartCompany Wed 15 Sep 2021 Immutable AirTree Ventures APEX Capital BITKRAFT Ventures Fabric Ventures FTX Galaxy Interactive King River Capital Prosus Ventures Reinventure Group VaynerFund James Ferguson John Henderson Robbie Ferguson Zeb Rice

Also Startup Daily

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