Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm focused on utilizing product and data science to engineer N-of-1 companies and investments.
on-chain compliance platform Predicate has completed an $8 million Series A funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Paxos, 1kx, and Tribe Capital. Predicate primarily provides pre-transaction compliance review and risk control for stablecoins, tokenized assets, and other on-chain financial products, supporting the restriction of high-risk addresses and sanctioned transactions.
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As reported by Cointelegraph, enterprise-grade AI agent infrastructure company AIsa has completed a seed round extension financing, with Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors, bringing its cumulative funding to over $9 million. Previous investors also include Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital.
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Enterprise AI agent infrastructure company AIsa has announced the completion of a seed extension round, with stablecoin issuer Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors. This round brings its cumulative funding to over $9 million.Tether and HIVEN join the existing investor lineup that includes Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital. AIsa founder and CEO Jordan Liu stated that the company will build infrastructure to support global discovery, access, and payment for resources by AI agents.AIsa's network integrates resource discovery, access, and transactions, connecting enterprise AI agents with external data, AI search, models, APIs, software tools, and industry services, while providing permission management, usage metering, billing, and settlement. (Cointelegraph)
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: This funding round was led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from institutions including Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital. Alkemya Metacore primarily holds approximately 7 million meters of ultra-high-purity nickel wire with a purity of 99.99% and a diameter of 0.025 mm. This asset has been independently verified with an estimated value of approximately $1.64 billion and is currently held in institutional custody in Lugano, Switzerland. The company plans to process the nickel wire into engineered mesh products for applications such as electromagnetic shielding, aerospace and defense, marine and desalination, power and industrial, semiconductors, green hydrogen, and precious metal recovery. It also aims to raise additional funds by issuing tokenized equity in the form of ALKN tokens. ALKN is issued by Alkemya Metacore SCSp in Luxembourg and is planned to be traded on regulated platforms such as Bitfinex Securities. The new issuance price is set at $1 per token, targeting institutional and professional investors, with the offering deadline set for October 15. Under the revenue distribution mechanism, investor capital will receive priority full repayment, along with a preferred return of 6% compounded annually. Profits from commercial operations will be split between token holders and partners on an 80:20 basis.
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According to CoinDesk, DeFi protection protocol Firelight Protocol has announced an $8 million funding round led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital. Incubated by DeFi infrastructure provider Sentora, which manages $2.4 billion in assets, Firelight is scheduled to officially launch this September.
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Odaily News: AI video generation platform Higgsfield has completed a $400 million funding round at a valuation of $5.4 billion. Investors include DST Global, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, Tribe Capital, Smash Capital, Fifth Wall, Valor Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. The funding will primarily be used for enterprise-grade products, security, and computing power investment.Higgsfield was founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov and currently has over 30 million users across 238 countries and regions. As of August this year, its annualized revenue had reached $700 million. Previously, Higgsfield raised $80 million at a valuation of $1.3 billion. (FT)
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