Jump Capitals seneste fond på $ 350 mio. Skal være kryptofokuseret

Venturekapitalfirmaet har rejst 75 % mere, end det gjorde i sin forrige finansieringsrunde i oktober 2019

Chicago-baserede Jump Capital rejste $350 millioner, hvilket markerer den hidtil største investeringsfinansiering. En betydelig brøkdel af summen er sat til at blive allokeret til kryptobestræbelser, ifølge meddelelse. 

Jump Capital has been in the cryptocurrency sector for a while now. The company’s crypto president Kanav Kariya noted that conforming to the current wave aligned with the long-term strategy.

“We’ve been in crypto for six years now in various capacities. That spans a lot more than trading. Helping build out a lot of protocols, being involved in protocol governance, and extending into areas we have expertise in,” hævdede Kariya.

Peter Johnson, en partner hos Jump Capital, gav flere detaljer om den nye mission og forklarede, at målene var baseret på de tidligere registrerede betydelige succeser i branchen.

“This new fund will have a large focus on crypto,” Bemærkede han. “This is an area we have had significant success since we started investing in crypto companies in 2015.”

Johnson belyste yderligere, hvilke kryptoområder Jump Capital nu ville sætte sin finansiering ind i, idet han nævnte egenkapital og tokens på tværs af decentraliseret finans (DeFi), blockchain og andre finansielle applikationer.

“We are uniquely positioned for success in this area given the team’s backgrounds in consumer FinTech, capital markets, distributed systems, computing infrastructure, and our connection with Jump Trading, which is one of the largest participants in the crypto markets,” Johnson bemærkede.

Jump Capital har allerede indskudt kapital i i alt 30 enheder siden starten af ​​året. Saurabh Sharma, en anden partner hos Jump Capital, fremhævede den seneste, som tiltrak 167 investorer. Han anerkendte behovet for, at kryptoindustrien skal skalere den underliggende blockchain-teknologi nok til at nå nye niveauer af succes.

"For at rummet skal vokse og få succes, skal der ske et par ting, og den ene er, at den underliggende teknologi skal udvikles for at nå den skalerbarhed, der er nødvendig for at tjene til masseskala versus noget meget niche."

In addition to Jump Capital, Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital has also recently revamped its efforts in the digital assets industry. The firm recently revealed a plan to raise a total of $250 million through a series of funding events.

Kilde: https://coinjournal.net/news/jump-capitals-latest-350m-fund-to-be-crypto-focused/