Hi everyone! For almost 6 months, we’ve been gathering and analyzing social and technology-related data for crypto assets globally — such as GitHub development activity, social media activity, Reddit mentions and sentiment, and more (check the full list here).

And now we’re glad to announce that Contora’s team connected data on venture investments in crypto projects. Yes, you read it right, Pitchbook charges $15K per year for access to this data, but today you’ll get free insights from us.

We’ve analyzed the investments raised by more than 7,400 crypto startups from traditional VCs, and below are some interesting facts about the crypto market based on this data. The first in line here will be the top crypto projects by total funding amount:

Many familiar projects, right? Then we’d like to dive deeper into the projects from the following dashboard. Below you can see the crypto projects that received funding most recently:

1. Arianee (ARIA20) — launched in 2018, Arianee provides end-to-end web3 solutions for brands. They help brands tokenize all forms of valuable assets, distribute NFTs, and leverage the power of decentralization. The Arianee protocol is built both on Ethereum Mainnet, and a side-chain of Ethereum called POAnetwork.

On May 10th, ARIA20 raised a $21.4MM Series A round led by Tiger Global to bring luxury NFTs to the Metaverse. But in addition to Tiger Global, existing investors Bpifrance, ISAI, Noia Capital, and Cygni Labs were also participating in this round. Commerce Ventures and Motier Ventures are also investing in Arianee as first-time investors. We can see that Twitter users have started to mention and discuss ARIA20 on Twitter after this announcement actively:

“We have built an end-to-end solution designed for brands, allowing them to create NFTs, distribute them and leverage tokens and wallets to build a new CRM, new loyalty programs, personalization options and metaverse deployment” — said Arianee’s CEO Pierre Nicolas Hurstel in an interview.

We’re excited to see how the Arianee develops in the nearest future, but it definitely has a solid base for investing in.

2. Cometh (MUST) — launched in January 2021, Cometh is a groundbreaking strategy game where players can win valuable tokens and that leverages the Decentralized Finance ecosystem to create a persistent and sustainable outer space. All the core features of the Ethereum blockchain play a role in Cometh, which also leverages an Optimistic Rollup layer 2 scaling solution.

Cometh raised $10MM on May 5th to boost blockchain adoption in video games. The round was led by venture capital fund White Star Capital and Stake Capital DAO, other investors, followed by top tier participating VCs: Serena, FDJ v13 Invest, Shima Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Sparkle Ventures.

“We will introduce other games, both related and unrelated to Cometh Battle, followed by innovative ideas on how blockchain can be utilized in games. The spaceships you own and hold in your wallets will always be transferable from one game to another. This is one statement we want to and are going to stay true to, you are our supporters, and we will continue to create games for you, showcasing the utility of NFTs.” -explains Jerome de Tychey, Founder and Galactic Councilor

Cometh to the moon? Let’s see, at least you can hold the spaceship :)MUST also has a powerful social presence and significant community — 29K followers on Twitter, 9K members on Discord, and more than 2.5K members on Telegram:

3. 0x Labs (ZRX) — is an infrastructure protocol that allows users to easily trade ERC20 tokens and other assets on the Ethereum blockchain without relying on centralized intermediaries like traditional cryptocurrency exchanges. 0x currently supports 7 major blockchains: Ethereum, Polygon, Fantom, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, and Celo, and the 0x ecosystem has been rapidly expanding (integrations with MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet and NFT, Polygon Wallet, and much more).

On April 26th, 0x closed a $70MM Series B round led by Greylock Partners. The round also included investors such as CoinBase (+ NFT partnership), Jump Capital, OpenSea, and Jared Leto.

Seems like 0x Labs continues expanding Web3’s core exchange infrastructure, and most likely, soon we’ll see its team and product expanding as well. As for now, the development activity data (number of GitHub contributors and commits) doesn’t look promising:

Let’s keep a closer eye on it and see how they’re will be developing with Ms they raised. It is also worth mentioning that the ZRX has a higher than average social presence — 263K on Twitter, more than **20K **on its Subreddit, and 2K members on Telegram.

4. Near Protocol (NEAR) — is a layer-one blockchain that was designed as a community-run cloud computing platform and that eliminates some of the limitations that have been bogging competing blockchains, such as low transaction speeds, low throughput, and poor interoperability.

It raised funds almost 5 months ago (April 6th), but $350MM — big players are here. Let’s drop a few lines about it too. As you saw from the very first dashboard in this publication, NEAR is the 2nd of the top-funded crypto projects globally. The latest round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Republic Capital, Hashed, FTX Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, and others.

We’ve already looked at Near from the perspective of alternative data, please check our analysis here — Indirect perspective on Near Protocol (NEAR). But what’s more interesting is that Redditors have started to discuss NEAR more positively after raising the round in early April. Such a sentiment can be spotted very rarely on Reddit, very bullish!

And yes, Tiger Global appeared as a leading fund 2 times just in this publication. Excited to see which other VCs are investing large amounts in crypto projects? We’ve got you covered with this data as well (and obviously a16z is taking the 1st place):

Hope you enjoyed today’s analysis and the new data metrics we connected! With the help of such data, it is quite simple to identify new promising startups that have received funding recently. And since we update data on a daily basis, you won’t miss a one 😎

P.S. If you represent a business and are interested in getting access to these and many other dashboards (social media sentiment, development activity, etc) or API, just drop me a line at contora.ai

Our team is just at the beginning of the journey and we would like to publish more analyzes of the data we have collected, but this requires resources. I would be grateful for your support here!

Hi everyone! For almost 6 months, we’ve been gathering and analyzing social and technology-related data for crypto assets globally — such as GitHub development activity, social media activity, Reddit mentions and sentiment, and more (check the full list here).

And now we’re glad to announce that Contora’s team connected data on venture investments in crypto projects. Yes, you read it right, Pitchbook charges $15K per year for access to this data, but today you’ll get free insights from us.

We’ve analyzed the investments raised by more than 7,400 crypto startups from traditional VCs, and below are some interesting facts about the crypto market based on this data. The first in line here will be the top crypto projects by total funding amount:

Many familiar projects, right? Then we’d like to dive deeper into the projects from the following dashboard. Below you can see the crypto projects that received funding most recently:

1. Arianee (ARIA20) — launched in 2018, Arianee provides end-to-end web3 solutions for brands. They help brands tokenize all forms of valuable assets, distribute NFTs, and leverage the power of decentralization. The Arianee protocol is built both on Ethereum Mainnet, and a side-chain of Ethereum called POAnetwork.

On May 10th, ARIA20 raised a $21.4MM Series A round led by Tiger Global to bring luxury NFTs to the Metaverse. But in addition to Tiger Global, existing investors Bpifrance, ISAI, Noia Capital, and Cygni Labs were also participating in this round. Commerce Ventures and Motier Ventures are also investing in Arianee as first-time investors. We can see that Twitter users have started to mention and discuss ARIA20 on Twitter after this announcement actively:

“We have built an end-to-end solution designed for brands, allowing them to create NFTs, distribute them and leverage tokens and wallets to build a new CRM, new loyalty programs, personalization options and metaverse deployment” — said Arianee’s CEO Pierre Nicolas Hurstel in an interview.

We’re excited to see how the Arianee develops in the nearest future, but it definitely has a solid base for investing in.

2. Cometh (MUST) — launched in January 2021, Cometh is a groundbreaking strategy game where players can win valuable tokens and that leverages the Decentralized Finance ecosystem to create a persistent and sustainable outer space. All the core features of the Ethereum blockchain play a role in Cometh, which also leverages an Optimistic Rollup layer 2 scaling solution.

Cometh raised $10MM on May 5th to boost blockchain adoption in video games. The round was led by venture capital fund White Star Capital and Stake Capital DAO, other investors, followed by top tier participating VCs: Serena, FDJ v13 Invest, Shima Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Sparkle Ventures.

“We will introduce other games, both related and unrelated to Cometh Battle, followed by innovative ideas on how blockchain can be utilized in games. The spaceships you own and hold in your wallets will always be transferable from one game to another. This is one statement we want to and are going to stay true to, you are our supporters, and we will continue to create games for you, showcasing the utility of NFTs.” -explains Jerome de Tychey, Founder and Galactic Councilor

Cometh to the moon? Let’s see, at least you can hold the spaceship :)MUST also has a powerful social presence and significant community — 29K followers on Twitter, 9K members on Discord, and more than 2.5K members on Telegram:

3. 0x Labs (ZRX) — is an infrastructure protocol that allows users to easily trade ERC20 tokens and other assets on the Ethereum blockchain without relying on centralized intermediaries like traditional cryptocurrency exchanges. 0x currently supports 7 major blockchains: Ethereum, Polygon, Fantom, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, and Celo, and the 0x ecosystem has been rapidly expanding (integrations with MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet and NFT, Polygon Wallet, and much more).

On April 26th, 0x closed a $70MM Series B round led by Greylock Partners. The round also included investors such as CoinBase (+ NFT partnership), Jump Capital, OpenSea, and Jared Leto.

Seems like 0x Labs continues expanding Web3’s core exchange infrastructure, and most likely, soon we’ll see its team and product expanding as well. As for now, the development activity data (number of GitHub contributors and commits) doesn’t look promising:

Let’s keep a closer eye on it and see how they’re will be developing with Ms they raised. It is also worth mentioning that the ZRX has a higher than average social presence — 263K on Twitter, more than **20K **on its Subreddit, and 2K members on Telegram.

4. Near Protocol (NEAR) — is a layer-one blockchain that was designed as a community-run cloud computing platform and that eliminates some of the limitations that have been bogging competing blockchains, such as low transaction speeds, low throughput, and poor interoperability.

It raised funds almost 5 months ago (April 6th), but $350MM — big players are here. Let’s drop a few lines about it too. As you saw from the very first dashboard in this publication, NEAR is the 2nd of the top-funded crypto projects globally. The latest round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Republic Capital, Hashed, FTX Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, and others.

We’ve already looked at Near from the perspective of alternative data, please check our analysis here — Indirect perspective on Near Protocol (NEAR). But what’s more interesting is that Redditors have started to discuss NEAR more positively after raising the round in early April. Such a sentiment can be spotted very rarely on Reddit, very bullish!

And yes, Tiger Global appeared as a leading fund 2 times just in this publication. Excited to see which other VCs are investing large amounts in crypto projects? We’ve got you covered with this data as well (and obviously a16z is taking the 1st place):

Hope you enjoyed today’s analysis and the new data metrics we connected! With the help of such data, it is quite simple to identify new promising startups that have received funding recently. And since we update data on a daily basis, you won’t miss a one 😎

P.S. If you represent a business and are interested in getting access to these and many other dashboards (social media sentiment, development activity, etc) or API, just drop me a line at contora.ai

Our team is just at the beginning of the journey and we would like to publish more analyzes of the data we have collected, but this requires resources. I would be grateful for your support here!