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【1】Botto
Amount: undisclosed
Stages: undisclosed
Date: February 16
Investors: Variant Fund
Category: Digital Art, Artificial Intelligence
Description: Botto is a collective AI creative artist who creates 350 pieces of art each week and presents them to the community. These artworks are considered a "round", so individual artworks are called "fragments". The community votes on these art fragments. The votes represent the participants' personal preferences for what they consider to be aesthetically pleasing art. Overall, the votes are used as feedback for Botto's generation algorithm, which determines the direction of Botto's next round of artworks. Over time, Botto will create art that is guided and managed by the community.
Website:https://botto.com
Twitter:https://twitter.com/bottoproject
【2】YGG
Amount: $13.8 million
Stages: undisclosed
Date: February 17
Investors: a16z, DWF Labs, Galaxy Interactive, Sanctor Capital, David Lee, Sangha Capital
Category: Chain game guild
Description: Yield Guild Games is a decentralized gaming guild that leverages the time and energy of players to optimize community-owned assets by pooling funds to purchase revenue-generating NFTs for maximum utility and return. Through the combination of NFT and DeFi, YGG creates value for its partners and community by developing content and economies for virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization's mission is to create the largest virtual world economy.
Additions:$4.6 million in funding in July 2022; $12.5 million in Series IDO funding on July 28, 2021; $4 million in Series A funding on June 16, 2021; $1.32 million in funding on March 4, 2021
Website:https://yieldguild.games
Twitter:https://twitter.com/YieldGuild
【3】Ultimate Champions/UNAGI
Amount: $5 million
Stages: seed round
Date: February 17
Investors: Sisu Game Ventures, Sfermion, Signum Capital, UOB Venture, 2B Ventures, Machame
Category: Ball game
Description: Ultimate Champions is a completely free fantasy soccer game with officially licensed digital cards hosted on the blockchain in the form of NFTs. In Ultimate Champions, players can use their soccer knowledge to build the best team each week to earn rewards with long-term value: cards (NFT) and tokens ($MGC/$CHAMP). The game is developed by Unagi, a Web3 game company.
Additions:$4 million in strategic funding on November 15, 2022; $1.7 million in private placement round in December 2021
Website:https://ultimate-champions.com
Twitter:https://twitter.com/UltiChamps
【4】Cysic
Amount: $6 million
Stages: seed round
Date: February 17
Investors: Polychain, A&T Capital, HashKey Capital, SNZ Holding, ABCDE Capital, Web3.com Ventures
Category: Infrastructure, zk
Description: Cysic is a ZK hardware acceleration project that designs advanced ASIC chips to help reduce ZK proof generation time and has multiple ecosystem partners including Scroll, Nil Foundation and Hyper Oracle.
Website:https://cysic.xyz
Twitter:https://twitter.com/cysic_xyz
【5】Phi
Amount: $2 million
Stages: seed round
Date: February 17
Investors: Chapter One, Delphi Digital, Polygon Ventures, GBV Capital, Mask Network
Category: Social, ENS Eco
Description: Phi is a social gaming metaverse focused on "on-chain identities" created using ENS and verified wallet activity to easily visualize on-chain identities. It motivates users to interact with various Web3 protocols, providing positive feedback to all protocols and accelerating the overall network effect of Web3. The protocol allows users to use their ENS to generate personalization spaces and then declare objects in the game based on their wallet activity. Using these objects, users can build their own Web3 world to showcase their on-chain identity. The goal of the project is to accelerate the mass adoption of the entire web3 ecosystem by providing social, gaming and artistic features for leisure.
Website:https://philand.xyz
Twitter:https://twitter.com/phi_xyz
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