Tag: Peter Thiel

Block.one closes investment round led by Peter Thiel and Bitmain
July 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Block.one closes investment round led by Peter Thiel and Bitmain

Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain protocol, a high performance blockchain platform for decentralized applications, has just announced that venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has invested in the company, along with other notable investors, Bitmain, Louis Bacon, and Alan Howard. This round follows an earlier round led by Christian Angermayer, Lansdowne Investment Company Ltd,…

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June 18, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Nextmarkets gets Malta license, raises €6 million for trading platform

Cologne, Germany based fintech start-up nextmarkets GmbH has announced the closing of its Series A financing round, in which British hedge fund manager Alan Howard, Axel Springer Media for Equity GmbH, and Crypto Asset specialist Cryptology Asset Group PLC are investing €6 million euros into the company. The new investors listed above are investing alongside existing shareholders FinLab,…

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July 22, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Peter Thiel is taking a stake in German Fintech startup nextmarkets

Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal and an early institutional investor in Facebook, is taking a stake in in Cologne based Fintech startup nextmarkets GmbH. nextmarkets, which was jointly launched by the founders and FinLab, obtained a seven-figure sum during this investment round, which will be used to finance further growth. Alongside Peter Thiel and FinLab…

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September 17, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

BitPay hits 10,000 merchants using its Bitcoin payment services

VC-backed Bitcoin payments solutions company is making tracks to make Bitcoin a 'real' currency. Everyone understands that a currency must be something we actually use to buy things. For a while, the hype surrounding Bitcoin was all about who is investing in it (the Winklevoss twins), and who was making it available to trade (several…

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