VC podjetje soustanovitelja Reddita zbralo 500 milijonov dolarjev predvsem za kripto startupe

Alexis Ohanian – soustanovitelj Reddita – je pred kratkim zbral 500 milijonov dolarjev za svojo družbo tveganega kapitala 776 Management LLC. Povedal je, da bodo nova sredstva namenjena predvsem "podvojitvi" naložb v kripto startupe.

Več denarja za kripto

As poročali by Wall Street Journal, Ohanian showed confidence in the growing entrepreneurial and software activity in crypto. As such, the company has 40% of its current funds in the sector, while the remainder goes towards others like space exploration, climate, and food.

"To bo večina portfelja do konca tega leta," je dejal gospod Ohanian o naložbah podjetja v kripto.

Novi kapital podjetja gre v dva nova sklada. Eden je 300 milijonov USD 776 Fund II, ki je bil ustanovljen za podporo začetnim kriptovalutom v zgodnji fazi pred in je vodil do financiranja Seed A. Drugi je 200 milijonov USD Arete Fund I, osredotočen na podjetja z zrelejšo rastjo, ki gostijo večje kroge financiranja serije A in B.

One of the company’s primary focuses is to make women a larger part of the crypto market. According to a študija from CNBC in August, there are twice as many male cryptocurrency investors as female ones.

It would also like to simplify use of crypto based products, to the point that customers need not even know they’re interacting with blockchain technology. Current industry examples of this lie in crypto-linked credit and debit cards, which allow merchants to sprejemajo crypto payments without even knowing it.

Ohanianova ljubezen do spleta 3

Last year, Ohanian’s firm partnerja with Solana Labs to invest $100 million in decentralized social media. He believes Solana’s “high performance blockchain” could help make the Web 3 dream a reality – combining Web 2 features with Web 1 user ownership and control. A month later, he podvojili navzdol on a very similar initiative with Polygon for $200 million.

Vlagatelj ima že veliko izkušenj na področju kriptovalut, saj je bil začetni vlagatelj v Coinbase, Opendoor in Patreon. Seveda je zaradi njegovih več kot 15 let izkušenj z Redditom Web 3 naravna kombinacija obeh interesov.

In June, Ohanian trdil, to own “a lot” of ETH, believing it to have the most potential in the crypto ecosystem.