Dear GCR Members,

Please find the latest list of all active deals at GCR for the week of Aug 12! If you are interested in any of the deals below, please indicate your interest by filling out this form.

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RAISING (Currently Fundraising)

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1. DEAL #1

   • Description: A growing decentralized social network. The team has 2mn+ MAU compared to Farcaster at 150k MAU. They look at their competition as centralized social platforms.

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $15M @ $150M Val

   • Investors: Round is now being led by Blockchain Capital, who is taking $10 million of the $ 15 million round, valuing at the company $75 million post-money equity. There will be now a token warrant valuing the company at $150mn FDV

   • Discord link

2. DEAL #2

   • Description: An open protocol for building social media applications and APIs, with a shared data layer that is owned by protocol participants and managed by node providers.

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $30M @ $300M

   • Investors: Raised 9M @35M(70M token val) back in March 2022. The round was led by Polychain with participation from Shima Capital, Upfront (LA’s biggest VC) and BDMI (German adtech player).

   • Discord link

3. DEAL #3

   • Description: Bitcoin Liquid Staking Protocol

   • Fundraising & Valuation: Open @ $30-$50M Valuation

   • Investors: Raised $3.5 million in an oversubscribed Seed round led by Greenfield with participation from Lemniscap, No Limit Holdings, Cogitent Ventures and Ankr

   • Discord link

4. DEAL #4

   • Description: Tokenize your time, in minutes, and let fans trade & redeem time with you. Earn ETH from trading fees & redemptions whenever people trade your time. Backed by Alliance DAO

   • Fundraising & Valuation: 3M @12M val ( 1:1 token warrant)

   • Investors: Brevan Howard is going to lead this round

   • Discord link

5. DEAL #5

   • Description: Pioneering the first ModelFi protocol, designed to create financial opportunities for AI creators, consumers, and investors through blockchain-based principles like tokenization, incentivization and monetization.

   • Fundraising & Valuation: $3M (min check $50K; raised Angel Round $2M @ $20M in Q1 2024) @ $60M

   • Investors: Hasn't started raising; talking to CoinFund, Polychain. Previous round investors include KR1, Purechain, YBB, Zonff, GHouse.capital, and MQDao.

   • Discord link