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ChainCatcher news, MetaWeb Ventures founder Amos Zhang confirmed his attendance at the "DeInsight 2024" annual summit to be held on November 11 in Bangkok during Devcon. MetaWeb Ventures is a global venture capital firm focused on the NEAR ecosystem, aiming to generate excess returns by investing in highly innovative projects and builders that can unlock mainstream adoption of blockchain for billions of users.The "DeInsight 2024" annual summit will take place on November 11 at Hotel Nikko Bangkok in Bangkok. This summit is co-hosted by ChainCatcher and RootData, and jointly organized by Soso Value. The conference aims to bring together elites in the Web3 field to exchange insights about the industry, and it is expected to attract over 1,000 industry elites.In addition, the conference will unveil the RootData List 2024, a significant annual ranking that objectively selects influential individuals or institutions in the industry from a data perspective.

ChainCatcher news, according to Oak Grove Ventures, has currently invested in 8 funds with a total investment amount exceeding 15 million dollars. The 8 funds include: Nomad Capital, MetaWeb Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Draper Dragon, ShangBay Capital, GeekCartel, IOSG Ventures, and Taihill Venture. Oak Grove Ventures stated that this investment will help further expand Oak Grove Ventures' resource network, enhance strategic synergy value, achieve diversification of the fund portfolio, and provide more robust long-term returns.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized liquid staking protocol Diva has completed a $3.5 million seed round financing, led by A&T Capital, with participation from Gnosis, Bankless, OKX Blockdream Ventures, Metaweb, DCV Capital, Alphemy Capital, Very Early Ventures, and Stake.vc, as well as some angel investors.It is reported that Diva will launch in late January 2023. Diva's CEO Pablo Villalba stated, "Diva is a super lightweight client that connects to existing Ethereum execution and consensus clients via standard APIs. Diva will allow stakers to stake any amount of ETH, with no minimum requirement, and without needing to run any nodes. Additionally, participants can establish a node with just 1 ETH." (source link)

Chain Catcher News, Singapore's digital asset and derivatives trading platform Jubi, today announced a strategic investment in the blockchain fund MetaWeb Ventures. In the future, Jubi will also look globally, actively exploring and investing in high-quality funds, institutions, and potential projects in the industry, adhering to a user-centric philosophy, and insisting on compliance and development in parallel, while continuously exploring innovation in the digital finance field.It is reported that MetaWeb Ventures is a global venture capital firm focused on seed pre-round and seed round investments in crypto startups, with its first fund raising a total of $30 million. In addition to Jubi, other investors in this round include the NEAR Foundation, Sequoia China, Dragonfly Capital, GSR Markets, and others.Jubi Exchange was founded in 2013, and as of July 2022, Jubi has provided digital asset and derivatives trading services for over 22 million users worldwide for 9 years. (Source link)

Chain Catcher News, focusing on cryptocurrency startups, venture capital firm MetaWeb Ventures announced that it has raised $30 million for its first fund, supported by Sequoia Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Near Foundation, and others. MetaWeb stated in an email on Thursday that the fund aims to primarily invest in decentralized social media, decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, and DAOs. MetaWeb mentioned that the fund has been operating in stealth mode for the past few months and has already invested in over 30 startups, including the decentralized trading protocol Orderly Network. MetaWeb Ventures was established as an ecosystem fund for the NEAR Protocol, and the company has expanded its target scope beyond NEAR to invest in applications on other networks, including Ethereum, Aurora, and Cosmos. (Source link)