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Hummingbot, the US-based creator of a crypto trading bot platform backed by Stanford University’s Stanford-StartX Fund, has completed an $8m series A round featuring stablecoin developer Terraform Labs, digital asset trading platform developer AscendEX, blockchain software provider Ava Labs and crypto finance data provider NEM Trading. The round was led by Initialized Capital and included Slow Ventures, Arrington XRP Capital, Borderless Capital, DeFiance Capital and Altonomy. The company had secured $3.5m from Stanford-StartX Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Ironfire Ventures and…

Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is the former editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and was the producer and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast until December 2024.