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【1】AnotherBall
Amount: $2.2 million
Stages: Angel round
Date: May 17
Investors: Jaynti Kanani, Suji Yan, Kevin Lin, Hiroaki Kitano, Rehito Hatoyama
Category: Social, Creator economy
Description: AnotherBall is building a new Web3 "virtual UP master" project IZUMO, IZUMO aims to create a place for anchors, illustrators, music and video producers who love anime, manga and game culture, so that they can continue to generate income according to their hobbies.
Website：https://izumo.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/IZUMOofficial
【2】Jia
Amount: $4.3 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: May 17
Investors: TCG Crypto, Saison Capital, Global Coin Research, BlockTower Capital, Packy McCormick, Hashed Emergent, Anand Iyer, Jared Hecht, Rory Eakin
Category: DeFi, Lending
Description: Jia is a emerging market DeFi platform provides blockchain-based loans, investments and ownership to businesses in every corner of the world.
Additions: $4.3 million in pre seed round funding closed in May 2022
Website：https://www.jia.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/jia_DeFi
【3】CoinCatch
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: May 17
Investors: ABCDE Capital
Category: CeFi, CEX, Social Trading
Description: CoinCatch is a crypto derivatives exchange focusing on social trading for KOLs to share their trading strategies inside out with their followers.
Website：https://www.coincatch.co/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/coincatchcom
【4】Metaco
Amount: $250 million
Stages: M&A
Date: May 17
Investors: Ripple
Category: CeFi, Custody
Description: Founded in 2014 in Switzerland, METACO enables financial institutions to capitalize on the burgeoning digital asset economy. METACO’s main product, called Harmonize, is an orchestration system for digital assets. From cryptocurrency custody and trading to tokenization, staking and smart contract management, the platform seamlessly connects institutions to the new world of decentralized finance.
Additions: $17 million in Series A round funding closed on July 14, 2020
Website：https://www.metaco.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/metaco_sa
【5】Story Protocol
Amount: $29.3 million
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: May 17
Investors: a16z Crypto, Hashed, dao5, Berggruen Holdings, Samsung Next, Foresight Ventures, Two Small Ventures, SLVC, Mirana Corp
Category: Social
Description: Story Protocol is building web3 technology to revolutionize how narrative universes are created. Story Protocol's mission is to unleash an entirely new way to create, govern, and license IP on-chain, ultimately forming an ecosystem of “story legos” that can be remixed and composed.
Website：https://www.storyprotocol.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/StoryProtocol
【6】Airstack
Amount: $7 million
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: May 17
Investors: Superscrypt, Hashed Emergent, NGC Ventures, Signum Capital, UOB Venture, WWVentures, Kyber Ventures, Perridon Holdings, Coinswitch, Primal Capital, ODA Capital
Category: Infrastructure, Developer Platform, Blockchain API
Description:Airstack is a web3 developer platform that provides fast and easy access to on-chain data across projects and blockchains.
Additions: $3 million in Pre seed round funding closed on October 20, 2022
Website：https://www.airstack.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/airstack_xyz
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