[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

[Dove Dispatch #40]

$551M raised last week across 36 funding rounds - check our last issue to stay up to date 💰

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-40?utm_source=url

[Dove Dispatch #41]

This week Alex Rawitz of DIMO dropped a ton of knowledge about his experience with fundraising:

👀 Getting inspired by Helium
🚗 Industry-focused funds

Plus 30 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-41-alex-rawitz-dimo?utm_source=url

[Dove Dispatch #42]

Nori recently raised a $7M Series A and the ReFi movement is gaining ground.
We dive into the capital market for climate-focused companies:

👀 Still a very niche vertical
🌍 Climate funds are getting into Web3

Plus 45 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-42-climate-focused?s=w

[Dove Dispatch #43]

$902M raised last week across 36 funding rounds - check our last issue to stay up to date 💰

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-43?s=w

[Dove Dispatch #44]

90% of Coinbase Ventures’ all-time capital was deployed in 2021.
We dig into the role of CEXs in the crypto venture ecosystem:

📈 $4.2B raised since January 2021
💸 27 CEXs are shaping the crypto corporate venture landscape

Plus 40 new fundraising rounds.

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-44-centralized-exchanges?s=w

[Dove Dispatch #45]

$857M raised last week across 27 funding rounds - check our last issue to stay up to date 💰

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-45?s=w

[Dove Dispatch #46]

$504M raised last week across 49 funding rounds - check our last issue to stay up to date 💰

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-46?s=w

[Dove Dispatch #47]

$1.6B raised last week across 41 funding rounds - check our last issue to stay up to date 💰

https://dovemountain.substack.com/p/dove-dispatch-47?s=w