Blockchain announces Series B with Lakestar and GV LeapRate

June 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockchain announces Series B with Lakestar and GV

Blockchain announced today that it has raised a Series B of $40 million with Lakestar and GV (formerly Google Ventures) with additional participation from Nokota Management and Digital Currency Group. Blockchain's existing investors – Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mosaic Ventures, Prudence Holdings, Virgin, and Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group) – also participated in the round. Blockchain's…

July 08, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Android co-founder Rich Miner is leaving GV to start an education project with Google

Rich Miner has announced that he is leaving GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to helm a Google education project. GV has not commented whether this project would be for-profit or not. Miner, who has also not given any details on the project yet, has shared in the past that it was too hard to…

December 07, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Should tech companies go public earlier? Google thinks so

The holy grail of many startup companies, tech and otherwise, is the IPO. An IPO, or initial public offering of company stock, has numerous advantages for startups and is done for a variety of reasons including: formally establishing a public valuation for a company, gives early stage shareholders and employees the chance to cash in…

June 08, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Corporate investment in Fintech set to double in 2015

Which companies invest the most in Fintech? And who are the leading early stage Fintech investors?

October 28, 2014 BY Mike Fox

LedgerX gets Google, Lightspeed backing to set up regulated bitcoin futures exchange

LedgerX has applied for registration with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a swap execution facility and a derivatives clearing organization. LedgerX intends to initially list bitcoin option contracts...

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