At Faction, no entrepreneur will ever have to answer: "why crypto?" We are fully red-pilled.
We're coming out of stealth & announcing the launch of Lightspeed Faction Fund I, a $285M early-stage venture fund dedicated exclusively to crypto 🥷
Thrilled to announce that Faction led the recent @LensProtocol fundraise! Why are we doubling down on Lens and tripling down on @StaniKulechov & the Avara team?
We're thrilled to lead @WeatherXM’s Series A round. WeatherXM is utilizing crypto incentives to build out the world's highest resolution, most accurate weather network
We are excited to back @NexusLabsHQ in their Series A alongside @lightspeedvp & @PanteraCapital. Nexus enables the next generation of verifiable computing, powered by zero knowledge proofs
Congratulations to @Figure on their successful debut on the Nasdaq. Via blockchain, they’re revolutionizing capital markets, democratizing finance, increasing transparency & eliminating inefficiencies. Thank you @mcagney, @juneou, Michael T 🤝
Today, on IPO day, we rang the bell at @Nasdaq, a milestone that marks both progress and possibility.
What began as an idea to reimagine capital markets through blockchain is becoming a reality with money moving faster, cheaper, and transparently. We’re just getting started.
1/ @EconiaLabs is building a hyper-parallelized on-chain order book protocol on @Aptos_Network, enabling optimal capital efficiency & composability across protocols.
We are thrilled to partner with them in this journey and here's why we're excited...