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Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform
Syky will serve as an incubator, marketplace and social community for the next generation of fashion designers and consumers.
Pearpop raises $18M at a $300M valuation to scale its social collaboration marketplace
Pearpop, a marketplace for social collaborations, announced today that it has raised an extension to its 2021-era Series A funding round. The company has added $18 million to its Series…
Curio lets NFT die-hards browse, track and buy all in one browser tab
Folks dedicated to the world of NFTs have access to loads of analytics and browsing tools, but none of them really work together. At least, that’s how new startup Curio…
Daily Crunch: Startup that transforms real-world items into NFTs raises $6.9M seed round
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet. Americana Technologies, a startup founded early last year by designer Jake Frey, allows…
Vaayu, a carbon tracking platform for retailers, pulls in $11.5M seed round led by Atomico
The last couple of years have seen a boom in carbon calculation startups, and long may it reign. (We need all the help we can get to avoid the disaster…
Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder, venture capitalist, and enthusiastic Twitter user, quietly announced a new initiative last week out of his venture firm, Seven Seven Six (776): the 776 Titans Fund.…
Ethereum’s hippest wallet app Rainbow banks funding from Alexis Ohanian
While a world of internet users skeptically grapples with the rise of multimillion-dollar JPGs and crypto exchanges bankrolling celebrity-packed Super Bowl spots, a network of blockchain startups is trying to…
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s 776 closes new $500M venture fund
Seven Seven Six, better known as 776, announced today that it has closed on $500 million across two vehicles for its second fund. The raise was “oversubscribed,” with $300 million…
That there are believers in crypto in the market is not a surprise. The pace of investing may prove to be.
Metafy, a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Tiger Global and Seven Seven Six led…
Party Round raises $7M to make the process of raising capital less awful
Party Round is building software that it hopes will make the process of raising early-stage corporate capital far simpler than it is today. And the company just used its own…
Collectible card trading platform Alt raises $75M as it eyes other asset categories and preps its mobile launch
When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those…
Intro’s app attracts Andreessen, Seven Seven Six, Kevin Durant to connect celebrity e-design experts with those seeking advice
Intro provides access to in-demand experts through personalized one-on-one video calls.
Elektra Health funnels new $3.75M round into helping women navigate menopause
Every woman will go through menopause some time during her life, but like many other femtech topics, this is still not talked about as much as it should.
Zebra raises $1.1M in a pre-seed round for messaging that pairs photos with voice chat
A new voice-based social app that cites Clubhouse as its biggest inspiration offers a playful new way to stay in touch with close friends and family. Zebra leaves video out of…
Digital greeting card startup Givingli raises $3 million seed round
While the digital revolution has transformed nearly every social interaction and communication type in the past couple decades, the humble birthday card has shown surprising resiliency. Givingli, a small LA-based…
This QR code startup just raised $5 million co-led by Coatue and Seven Seven Six
Amazon revolutionized one-click shopping, and it has a nearly $2 trillion market cap to show for the effort. Now, a 10-person startup founded by JD Maresco, who previously cofounded the…
Seven Seven Six, the new venture firm from Alexis Ohanian, closes $150 million Fund 1
In June of last year, Alexis Ohanian announced that he was leaving Initialized Capital, the venture firm he co-founded alongside Garry Tan in 2011. Nearly a year later, he’s announcing…
Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for games coaching grows
This morning Metafy, a distributed startup building a marketplace to match gamers with instructors, announced that it has closed an additional $5.5 million to its $3.15 million seed round. Call…
The past year has changed the way we work, on so many levels — a fact from which podcasters certainly weren’t immune. I can say, anecdotally, that as a long-time…
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Early investors in Dispo to donate any potential profits from the photo-sharing app
After Spark Capital announced it would “sever all ties” with Dispo following allegations around co-creator and famous YouTuber David Dobrik, two of the app’s earliest investors have similarly backed away from the company. Seven Seven Six and Unshackled followed suit this morning, releasing subsequent statements that they plan to donate any potential profits from investments…
