[Thursday Thoughts #16]

We chatted with Paul Veradittakit
of Pantera Capital who shared his thoughts on fundraising:

💸 Tokens vs. equity
📢 Lead investors' role
🤝 The emergence of crypto M&A

Check out the full interview.
https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/thursday-thoughts-16-paul-veradittakit

[Dove Dispatch #22]

Sky Mavis recently raised a massive $152M Series B round led by a16z to build a category-defining play-to-earn NFT gaming.
We dive into the hot capital market for P2E games:

🤑 More than $1B raised in 2021
👶 Seed rounds dominate
🇻🇳 Vietnam is a major hub

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-22-play-to-earn-gaming?justPublished=true

[Q3 2021 Fundraising Report]

We are excited to publish our fundraising report focused on Q3 2021 - the biggest quarter in crypto venture funding ever.

https://docsend.com/view/t2c92yuefkmwnajf

[Thursday Thoughts #17]

Today we sat down with Tom Schmidt to discuss angel investing - he covers a bunch including:

💻 His technical approach with founders
👀 Predictions for the coming months
💪 Leveraging his position at Dragonfly Capital


Check out the full interview.
https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/thursday-thoughts-17-angel-investing?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #23]

We’re making a small change to our distribution format and condensing our content into a single issue each week.

This week Bradley Miles of Roll dropped a ton of knowledge about his experience with fundraising:

💵 Seed extensions
🤝 Distilling your company’s value prop.
🤑 Personal tokens vs. traditional funding processes

Plus 27 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-23-bradley-miles-roll?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #24]

The Algorand Foundation recently launched a $300M fund to support DeFi innovation.
This week we dived into the Algorand ecosystem fundraising landscape:

💪 Major funding initiatives
☀️ On-chain metrics increasing
💸 Bullish funds make big bets

Plus 32 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-24-algorand

[Dove Dispatch #25]

We chatted with Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly Capital who shared his thoughts on fundraising:

💰 Fund of funds
🌍 Cross-border identity
👀 Multi-stage investing

Plus 32 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-25-haseeb-qureshi-dragonfly?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #26]

In October 2021, deBridge raised $5.5M from top investors after having won the @chainlink hackathon.
This week we dive into ETHGlobal - one of the best crypto hackathons - and look at fundraising activity coming out of it:

👀 Very few projects have announced funding
💰DeFi remains a focus

Plus 22 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-26-ethereum-hackathons?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #27]

We sat down with Mike Wen of Gallery to talk about his company's funding journey:

🤝 Bringing power users onboard
⏱ Fundraise timing

Plus 28 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-27-mike-wen-gallery?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #28]

StarkWare recently raised a $50M Series C round led by Sequoia.
We dive into the hot capital market for Ethereum scaling solutions:

📈 The ecosystem is gaining in maturity
🌟 Rollups and Validium technologies standout

Plus 29 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-28

[Dove Dispatch #29]

This week we sat down with Aiham Jaabari from Silo, who shared his thoughts on fundraising:

💰Using a Genesis Token Auction
🤝 Working with DeFi founders as advisors

Plus 25 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-29-aiham-jaabari-silo?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #30]

Colony recently raised $18M+ to finance early-stage projects building on the Avalanche network.
We dug into the Avalanche ecosystem funding ecosystem:

🔺 Still a nascent ecosystem dominated by DeFi
🌟 Future is bright

Plus 42 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-30-avalanche?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #31]

Today Miljan Martic from Kosen Labs shares insights about his experience from fundraising from a16z and Framework:

🧑‍💻 Leveraging founders' backgrounds
🧠 Diving into ML with top funds

Plus 32 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-31-miljan-martic-kosen?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #32]

We decided to keep the issues short during Christmas break. We will only include the new fundraising rounds.

$1.8B raised last week across 36 funding rounds - check our last issue to stay up to date 💰

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-32?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #33]

We decided to keep the issues short during Christmas break. We will only include the new fundraising rounds.

$345M raised last week across 35 funding rounds - check our last issue to stay up to date 💰

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-33

[Dove Dispatch #34]

We sat down with Victor Rortved from MetaCartel Ventures to discuss investment DAOs - he covers a bunch including:

💯 The importance of vibes
🤝 Adding value as a DAO

Plus 22 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-34-victor-rortved-metacartel

[Dove Dispatch #35]

Hop Protocol has just crossed $1B in transfer volume 6 months after launching.
We dive into the capital market for bridges:

👶 A growing but nascent vertical
🌟 Application-specific and generalized bridges standout

Plus 31 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-35?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #36]

This week Nansen's co-founder and CEO Alex Svanevik answers a few questions about his company’s fundraising journey:

🤝 Onboarding traditional VCs
💰 Evolution of decentralized M&A

Plus 39 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-36-alex-svanevik-nansen?justPublished=true

[Dove Dispatch #37]

Acala Network raised a seed round led by Polychain before DeFi summer.
Today we dig into the Polkadot funding landscape:

🤑 A (very) active funding ecosystem
📈 A maturing landscape led by DeFi

Plus 38 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-37-polkadot

[Dove Dispatch #38]

We chatted with Reuben Bramanathan of IDEO CoLab Ventures who covered a bunch including:

🧰 Operating as builders first, investors second
👀 Decentralizing VC

Plus 35 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-38-reuben-bramanathan

[Dove Dispatch #39]

By going public in 2021, Coinbase was the first crypto company to go from YC (S12) to IPO.
We dig into the role of Y Combinator in the crypto funding ecosystem:

📈 $1.42B raised across 51 deals since 2014
🍊 Growing initiatives affiliated with YC

Plus 40 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-39-y-combinator?r=l5c81