Source: Venture Burn. Date: 04.11.2016
NY-based Digital Currency Group and a private investor participated.
Financings
BigchainDB, scalable database with blockchain characteristics, raises €3m Series A
LBRY, a decentralized content sharing and publishing platform, raises $500K seed round
SOURCE: BostInno. DATE: 9.8.16
Boston-based venture capital firm Pillar led the round.
LBRY is ambitious. It has its own blockchain, domain naming system, and cryptocurrency.
Revelator, startup with a cloud-based platform for music licensing, distribution, and analytics, raises $2.5M Series A
SOURCE: TechCrunch DATE: 8.29.16. SECONDARY SOURCE: CryptoCoinsNews.
Exigent Capital led the round. Digital Currency Group and Israeli early-stage fund Reinvent also participated.
From my research, it is not clear exactly how Revelator is using a blockchain; however, it is clear they are interested in furthering the aims that blockchain-based initiatives are driving, including increased transparency, efficiency, and automation.
And, they’ve got public radio excited about blockchains. Woot, woot!
Blockai, SF-based startup providing proof-of-ownership for digital content, raises $547k seed round
SOURCE: Pete Rizzo, CoinDesk DATE: 3.16.16
According to CrunchBase, there were nine investors in the round, including Ramen Underground, Social Starts, Sterling.VC, and Vectr Ventures as well as several individuals. AngelList shows additional investors, including Paul Jeffries, who leads Policy Strategy and Legal Ops at Facebook.
ascribe raises $2M seed round; allows unique ed.’s of digital art to be licensed and tracked while maintaining attribution to certified author
SOURCE: TechCrunch. DATE: June 24, 2015.
Music disintermediation startup, Stem, raises $4.5M
Upfront Ventures led the round, which follows an undisclosed seed round led by Mark Cuban in October 2015.
SOURCE: Tubefilter. DATE: April 26, 2016
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