The Dfinity project Foundation held a private sale of tokens for accredited investors, collecting $102 million to create their own blockchain Protocol. Led the round of financing cryptocurrency subdivision of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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Also, participants of the Polychain steel round Capital, SV Angel, Aspect Ventures and Multicoin Capital. The price for one token in this case amounted to $4,18, and coins totaling $35 million were distributed to community representatives via AirDrop.
In a16z said that you highly appreciate the chances of a startup primarily for the team, which includes former developers from Google Inc and Uber Technologies Inc., and a PhD from Yale University.
Dfinity Foundation previously raised $61 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital to create a “cloud 3.0”.
We will remind, a16z and Polychain Capital jointly funded startup Oasis Labs, which eventually grossed $45 million.
In addition, Polychain Capital and bitcoin exchange Binance invested in the development of stablon Terra.
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