Sumitomo participated in Zebra Labs’ $5m round while investors including FTX Ventures and Aptos provided $3m in pre-seed funding for Martian.
M&A
Internet technology group Alphabet’s Google subsidiary has paid $100m to acquire Alter, the US-based metaverse avatar developer backed by social media platform Twitter, TechCrunch has reported.
Funding
| Company | Company description | Sector | Country | Round | Round size($m) | Deal date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zebra Labs | Celebrity fanbase metaverse platform | Media | China | N/A | 5 | 30/10/2022 | Sumitomo; NetDragon |
| Martian | Web3 wallet platform | Financial | US | Pre-Seed | 3 | 31/10/2022 | FTX (FTX Ventures), Aptos; Race Capital (lead), Superscrypt, Jump Capital |
| LinkedAI | AI skin diseases detection platform | Healthcare | Colombia | N/A | <1 ($500,00) | 18/10/2022 | Globant (Globant Ventures) |
| Moonshot Commons | Gen-Z web3 engineer community operator | Media | China | Seed | N/A | 31/10/2022 | Mask Network, IoTex; HashKey Capital (lead), Hash Global, ChainIDE, Paeonia Ventures, RSS3 |
| Aerialoop | Drone delivery airline | Industrial | US | N/A | N/A | 27/10/2022 | Coca-Cola Argentina/Arcor/SAIC (Kamay Ventures) |
| Ugo | DX robotics developer | Industrial | Japan | N/A | N/A | 28/10/2022 | Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi UFJ (Mitsubishi UFJ Capital), Seibu Shinkin Bank (Seibu Shinkin Capital), Tsukui (Tsukui Capital); Monozukuri Ventures |
