GCR Deal Update (Week of April 25, 2022)

Dear GCR Members,

Please find the latest list of all active deals at GCR for the week of April 25! If you are interested in any of the deals below, please indicate your interest by filling out this form.

As a reminder, you can always check the GCR Deal Dashboard for an overview of active deals at GCR!

Please visit #💼deal-chat-and-threads channel on our Discord for more information.

Best,

The GCR Core Team

1. Shil.Me (Deadline is 4/30 Saturday)

   • Description: First ‘LinkTree’ for NFTs. Shil.Me offers a lightweight, link-in-bio solution for people to display, verify and interact with their NFTs

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $1.2M at $16.2M valuation

   • Investors: Folius, Woodstock, OpenSea Ventures, Nifty Island CEO, POAP CEO, Mask.io, Zee Prime, etc.

   • Discord link

2. Fraction

   • Description: Institutional-grade MPC solution / custody technology platform

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $30M at $180M valuation

   • Investors: Liberty City Ventures, Human Capital, Ledger Prime, Polygon Studios, YGG, etc.

   • Discord link

3. Karma

   • Description: DAO reputation system to measure people’s engagement across DAO ecosystem

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $1.2M at $8M valuation

   • Investors: Seed Club Ventures, Boost VC, CoinGecko, Balaji Srinivasan, etc.

   • Discord link

4. Volmex Finance

   • Description: Suite of crypto volatility products and derivatives for DeFi and crypto

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $70M valuation

   • Investors: Three Arrows Capital, Alameda Research, CMS, Huobi Ventures, LedgerPrime, etc.

   • Discord link

5. Jia

   • Description: Emerging market DeFi lending platform

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $4M at $20M valuation

   • Investors: California-based crypto VC fund, etc.

   • Discord link

6. 101

   • Description: Permissionless Web3 course platform that will push out on-chain credentials for courses and educational resources

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $3M at $30M valuation

   • Investors: OlympusDAO, Sushiswap, Balaji Srinivasan, etc.

   • Discord link

7. Shardeum

   • Description: EVM compatible sharded L1

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $18M at $400M valuation

   • Investors: N/A

   • Discord link

8. Soma Finance

   1. Description: World’s first compliant multi-asset DEX & token issuance platform

   2. Fundraising & Valuation: $15.8M at $156M valuation

   3. Investors: Animoca, Griffin Gaming Partners, Forte, Canadic Capital, etc.

   4. Discord link

9. zkLink

   • Description: Trustless chain-to-chain DEX based on zero-knowledge technology

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $10M at $250M valuation

   • Investors: Arrington, Republic, Coinbase Ventures, etc.

   • Discord link

1. Kwil (Deal Call on May 2nd 11:30am ET)

   • Description: Decentralized, community-owned SQL database solution to build dApps and protocols

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $10M at $50M valuation

   • Investors: N/A

   • Discord link

2. DaoTown (Deal Call on May 2nd 1:00pm ET)

   • Description: Flexible, modular dev framework for the DAOs with a simple no-code interface for mainstream users

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $5M at $50M valuation

   • Investors: N/A

   • Discord link

3. Nametag (Deal Call on May 2nd 11:00am ET)

   • Description: Naming service for the NFT and social DAO space (30k+ users)

   • Fundraising & Valuation: N/A

   • Investors: N/A

   • Discord link