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Venice AI Completes $65 Million Funding Round at $1 Billion Valuation
Venice AI founder Erik Voorhees announced on Wednesday that the company has completed its first external funding round, raising $65 million at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by Dragonfly, with participation from North Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Archetype, Liquid2 Ventures, and Morgan Creek. Launched in May 2024, Venice AI is a privacy-focused AI chatbot alternative platform designed to prevent storing user conversations on centralized company servers. Voorhees stated that Venice AI has surpassed 3 million users and has already achieved profitability in the first quarter. Voorhees said the new capital will be used to expand the Venice platform, which provides access to major open-source and proprietary AI models through a single interface and API. The annual issuance of Venice AI's native token, VVV, was reduced to 3 million tokens on Wednesday, used to reward token holders who support the network by staking VVV.
AI coding company Blitzy completes $200 million funding round, with Jump Capital among participants
Blitzy, an AI coding company co-founded by former Nvidia architect Sid Pardeshi, has announced the completion of a $200 million funding round. Northzone led the round, with participation from Battery Ventures, Jump Capital, and crypto investment firm Morgan Creek Digital, among others. It is reported that the Blitzy platform can parse complex systems with over 100 million lines of code and execute development, testing, and verification tasks in parallel through thousands of AI agents. This model is seen as a significant application direction for Agentic AI in the development field. The new funds will be used to expand research and development as well as market outreach, focusing primarily on highly regulated industries such as finance. (Techfundingnews)
RWA platform Nuva Digital closes $5.2M seed round led by Morgan Creek Digital
According to The Block, Nuva Digital has completed a $5.2 million seed funding round, led by Morgan Creek Digital with participation from Ulu Ventures. The round was closed in a single tranche and marks the company’s first external funding. Nuva Digital was jointly incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs (formerly Provenance Blockchain Labs) and is building Nuva Finance, a real-world asset (RWA) yield platform. The financing structure consists of a priced equity seed round accompanied by token purchase warrants; the valuation was not disclosed.
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Venice AI Completes $65 Million Funding Round at $1 Billion Valuation
Venice AI founder Erik Voorhees announced on Wednesday that the company has completed its first external funding round, raising $65 million at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by Dragonfly, with participation from North Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Archetype, Liquid2 Ventures, and Morgan Creek. Launched in May 2024, Venice AI is a privacy-focused AI chatbot alternative platform designed to prevent storing user conversations on centralized company servers. Voorhees stated that Venice AI has surpassed 3 million users and has already achieved profitability in the first quarter. Voorhees said the new capital will be used to expand the Venice platform, which provides access to major open-source and proprietary AI models through a single interface and API. The annual issuance of Venice AI's native token, VVV, was reduced to 3 million tokens on Wednesday, used to reward token holders who support the network by staking VVV.
AI coding company Blitzy completes $200 million funding round, with Jump Capital among participants
Blitzy, an AI coding company co-founded by former Nvidia architect Sid Pardeshi, has announced the completion of a $200 million funding round. Northzone led the round, with participation from Battery Ventures, Jump Capital, and crypto investment firm Morgan Creek Digital, among others. It is reported that the Blitzy platform can parse complex systems with over 100 million lines of code and execute development, testing, and verification tasks in parallel through thousands of AI agents. This model is seen as a significant application direction for Agentic AI in the development field. The new funds will be used to expand research and development as well as market outreach, focusing primarily on highly regulated industries such as finance. (Techfundingnews)
RWA platform Nuva Digital closes $5.2M seed round led by Morgan Creek Digital
According to The Block, Nuva Digital has completed a $5.2 million seed funding round, led by Morgan Creek Digital with participation from Ulu Ventures. The round was closed in a single tranche and marks the company’s first external funding. Nuva Digital was jointly incubated by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs (formerly Provenance Blockchain Labs) and is building Nuva Finance, a real-world asset (RWA) yield platform. The financing structure consists of a priced equity seed round accompanied by token purchase warrants; the valuation was not disclosed.