Pantera Capital - Wiki

Pantera Capital was founded in 2003 by CEO Dan Morehead, a former chief financial officer and head of macro trading at hedge fund Tiger Management. Pantera announced in March 2013 that it had shifted its focus to bitcoin and other digital currencies, having previously been primarily working with global macro hedge-fund investments, the company launched Pantera Bitcoin Fund as first cryptocurrency fund in U.S. Pantera’s portfolio investments include bitcoin services provider BitPesa, exchange platform Bitstamp, BitPagos Inc., 21 Inc., Ripio Credit Network, ChangeTip, Circle and Xapo. In 2014, Pantera announced a partnership with Fortress Investment Group, Benchmark and Ribbit Capital to create a shared bitcoin investment fund led by Pantera, Pantera Bitcoin Partners. In October 2017, Pantera Capital along with Blockchain Capita and Polychain Capital contributed $50 million to Kik Interactive Inc's presale. In the same month Pantera raised $5 million in video streaming token pre-sale.

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Timeline

May 2022

Pantera Capital raises a $30,000,000 series A round from Delphi Ventures and Paradigm.

May 2022

Pantera Capital raises a $10,000,000 series B round from Blockchain Capital and Framework Ventures.

April 6, 2022

Pantera Capital sets out stall to raise new $200 million fund

April 2022

Pantera Capital raises a $70,000,000 series B round from Greylock and Jump Capital.

April 2022

Pantera Capital raises a $20,000,000 series A round from Coinbase Ventures and Founders Fund.

2021

Pantera Blockchain Fund launches — a new wrapper for the entire spectrum of blockchain assets

2018

Pantera Venture Fund III launches

2017

Pantera Early-Stage Token Fund — First early-stage token fund in U.S

2017

Pantera Liquid Token Fund launches

2015

Pantera Co-CIO, Joey Krug, creates first ICO on Ethereum with Augur launch

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Omar Faridi

August 17, 2021

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NFT Platform for Digital Art MakersPlace Raises $30 Million Series A

JD Alois

August 4, 2021

Crowdfund Insider

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Coinbase Investor Andreessen Horowitz Might be Launching New $1 Billion Cryptocurrency focused Fund: Report

Omar Faridi

May 1, 2021

Crowdfund Insider

Andreessen Horowitz may be launching new $1 billion cryptocurrency focused fund. It might be twice as large as the VC firm's previous fund.

Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the 'AWS for blockchain'

Mary Ann Azevedo

April 28, 2021

TechCrunch

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel's new fund. The company previously raised a total of $15.5 million, so the latest financing brings its total raised to $95.5 million since it launched in 2017. The latest round caught [...]

Alchemy Raises $80 Million Series B Funding at 1⁄2 Billion Dollar Valuation to Power the Blockchain Industry

Alchemy

April 28, 2021

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- Alchemy, the leading blockchain developer platform powering over $30 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries...