Hackathon organiser and web3 incentive platform DoraHacks raises $20 million

Hackathon organiser and web3 incentive platform DoraHacks has raised $20 million in a Series B1 round, led by FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures.

The funds will be used to accelerate the launch of the Dora Grant DAO, a decentralized grant community, and the Dora Infinite Fund, the company said in a release on Wednesday. The fund will officially launch via an NFT drop later in 2022.

The raise follows an $8 million strategic round last year, led by Binance Labs, bringing the total amount invested in Dora core infrastructures over the past 18 months to nearly $50 million.

Since late 2020, DoraHacks has invested in and incubated 20 projects, including DAO-as-a-service infrastructure Dora Factory, zero-knowledge infrastructure Zecrey, play-to-earn Thetan Arena, and web3 tooling infrastructure ETHSign. DoraHacks is also the co-host of the Binance Labs incubation program.

The raise is the latest in a number of plays made for web3 infrastructure in recent months. Earlier this week, Ikigai Asset Management, a Puerto Rico-based crypto asset management startup, said it had raised $30 million in venture funding for web3 projects.

Custody tech provider Fireblocks also launched a new web3 platform, with a suite of tools for developers to build DeFi, GameFi and NFT products and services.

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