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US crypto exchange
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Coinbase raised.
Companies Coinbase acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Armstrong | CEO | TechCrunch Venture |
Stories naming Coinbase. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Startup Daily profiles Crystal aOS, Joni Pirovich's crypto compliance platform, among Techstars Sydney's 2025 cohort ahead of its Demo the Future event, covering the product and why the accelerator invested.
Decentralised exchange GTE has raised a $15 million Series A led by Paradigm, positioning itself against Uniswap and PancakeSwap with an order-book model and citing a trillion dollars of 2025 trading volume.
Also endroid.com
Weekly roundup covering several startup acquisitions, a clutch of venture rounds across AI and other sectors, a Clay employee share sale, and Marathon Venture Capital's new fund close.
A fintech roundup: Bench's closure and sale to Employer.com, multiple acquisitions, fresh raises at Float Financial, Open Ledger, NomuPay and Buk, Robinhood's regulator settlement, and Groww's listing plans.
0x, a decentralized trading protocol, has closed a $70m Series B led by Greylock, with Pantera, OpenSea and Jump Crypto joining; proceeds fund cross-chain work, new chain integrations and its Matcha search engine.
Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup covering record Australian VC fund raises, several green-tech startup funding rounds, Deliveroo's administration, the FTX collapse, and takeover offers for ELMO and Nitro.
Also Techboard
A New Zealand venture firm has launched a crypto and web3-focused fund led by a newly hired general partner, with a first close planned for June, while its existing fund continues raising toward a final close.
AfterWork Ventures reflects on backing Stropro in February 2020, explaining why the platform opening structured bank products to sophisticated investors fits its unbundling-of-banks thesis and Asia-Pacific ambitions.
US investor Tim Draper has led a pre-seed round in Australian drone reforestation startup Lord of the Trees, raising US$1.25 million (A$1.67 million) at a A$7 million valuation.
Also AgFunderNews
Aura Ventures maps the Web3 ecosystem, separating private blockchains from four public layers, and argues genuine value will migrate to scaling and application layers, citing its portfolio firm Lygon and Australian protocol Synthetix.
New Zealand data startup Segna has received US$125,000 from Y Combinator before starting its accelerator program, taking total funds raised to NZ$880,000 with backing from three venture funds.
Commentary piece on VC exit strategies (IPO, trade sale, secondary sale) referencing recent Australian tech M&A deals and venture funding rounds including Sendle, UpGuard, Sonder and others.