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Seeds Raises an Additional $2 Million in Funding, Meet Hash3, and Exclusive Data - Building a Moat

Social Leverage Letter | Issue #96

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Ethan Berk
July 02, 2023

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Seeds (Fund IV), has raised an additional $2 million in funding. The round was led by Blank Ventures, with participation from us here at Social Leverage, and The Compound Capital Fund I. The new funds will be used to grow Seeds' platform and support its mission to make investing more personalized and engaging for advisors and their clients.

Seeds Raises an Additional $2 Million in Funding — Social Leverage

I am thrilled to announce that Social Leverage has participated in Seeds' additional $2 million in funding, which was led by Blank Ventures and included further participation from The Compound Capital Fund I, the affiliated venture arm of Ritholtz Wealth Management.

Earlier this week, Hash3 (SLAF I) officially announced their $29 Million seed-stage fund. At Hash3, they believe that there is still much to be built at the infrastructure and middleware layers in DeFi, especially around scalability, security, privacy, and ease-of-use. The fund was founded by Hootie Rashidifard.

Meet Hash3

I’m excited to officially announce Hash3, a $29M seed-stage crypto fund investing $250k-1M into passionate founders building an open and permissionless future.

In his new newsletter, Matt Ober states that one way to build a moat is to collect exclusive data. Exclusive data can be a powerful competitive advantage because it can be used to create new products or services, improve existing ones, or target customers more effectively.

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