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Protocol Pandora Finance Raises $2.4 Million Seed Round May 25, 2021 @ 6:35 pm By JD Alois Pandora Finance has closed on a $2.4 million seed round, according to the company. The round was said to be oversubscribed by 5X. Pandora’s strategic investors in the funding include Zokyo Ventures, Exnetwork, Genesis Block, Spark Digital Assets, AU21, x21, NGC, A195, Protocol Ventures, Genblock, Magnus Capital, Chain Asset Capital, Amesten, Crypto Dorm Fund and Master Ventures, and other accredited individual investors. Pandora Protocol is described as a “hybrid Open Finance solution”. Pandora seeks to provide a bridge between real-world and on-chain assets that allows for the tokenization of illiquid assets – meaning they can be found, traded, and owned in a decentralized way. ....
Audience engagement startup Trufan raises $2.3M Trufan, a startup selling tools helping marketers analyze their social followings and collect audience data, announced today that it has raised a $2.3 million seed round. Despite raising a relatively small amount of funding ($4.1 million total), Trufan has already made two notable acquisitions. First, it acquired the SocialRank product and business in 2019, allowing it to offer capabilities like showing brands their most valuable social media followers. Then last year, it acquired Playr.gg, which marketers use to run giveaways that consumers enter by providing information such as their email addresses. Across its products, Trufan says it has more than 10,000 free users and more than 600 paying customers, including Netflix, NBA, NFL, Sony Music and United Talent Agency. ....
Trufan looks to consolidate audience analytics products with $2.3 million CAD seed round Toronto-based startup Trufan has raised a $2.3 million CAD seed round of funding, as the company looks to consolidate its two core products and offer a first-party audience analytics platform. Trufan is looking to combine its two products to help brands better leverage first-party data. The seed round was led by Moneta Ventures, with participation from GP Ventures, Protocol Ventures and a handful of angels, including Innovative Fitness founder Curtis Christopherson, Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favours, and Chicago Bulls forward Thaddeus Young. The athlete angel investments were facilitated by Athlete Technology Group, a venture event and media company. ....
Canadian startup Trufan, an audience engagement platform that helps brands grow, understand and engage their audiences, announced today that they have raised $2.3M from investors in an oversubscribed seed round. According to Swish Goswami, CEO and co-founder of Trufan, the company initially set out to raise $1.5M in funding. But when they received great feedback from investors, they decided to bring on additional partners they thought could be a strategic fit. “I’m really happy with our fundraising efforts and despite COVID, closing the round in under two months,” said Goswami in an interview with Daily Hive. “The pandemic definitely made it interesting we weren’t able to fly anywhere to meet potential investors. Everything happened over Zoom.” ....