The newly launched DeFi Alliance Fund aims to help early-stage DeFi startups by offering them financial and regulatory guidance as well as helping them connect with institutional players to fuel growth.
The crypto DeFi market has seen explosive growth this year in 2021 surging more than 350% year-to-date. As the DeFi projects continue to gain strength, big players are coming together to take the industry further. To fuel the growth of DeFi space further, investors and DeFi experts have announced a proactive collaboration thereby announcing the first DeFi Alliance Fund. The DeFi Alliance came into existence with some of the big industry players joining hands. Popular personalities from the DeFi space like Aave‘s Stani Kulechov and Compound Finance’s Robert Lashner are part of the alliance.
The DeFi Alliance has more than 60 member companies and over 28 DeFi projects including dYdX, 0x, Kyber Network, IDEX, Synthetix, and much more. The newly announced DeFi Alliance Fund I has been seeded by Alliance members, its founding members, as well as popular investors like Mark Cuban. These players have raised an initial corpus of $15 million.
1/ The DeFi Alliance launched with a mission to grow DeFi to 1b users by 2025.
Announcing our first fund led by @lmrankhan @QwQiao @panekkkk.
We’ve raised $15m led by @CMTDigitalLtd, @CumberlandSays, @jumpcapital, @mcuban and Susquehanna SIG.https://t.co/OVya2NDHJU
— DeFi Alliance (@defialliance) February 25, 2021
The official announcement further notes:
“The fund is designed to be collaborative and distribute capital broadly across the DeFi startup ecosystem and adjacent industries (such as NFTs). We will invest in several dozen early stage startups each year, which will allow the DeFi Alliance to formalize and fuel our accelerator program. We will distribute capital across the DeFi and adjacent industries (such as NFTs) investing in several dozen startups each year.”
DeFi Alliance Fund: Growth Plans for 2025
The DeFi Alliance has set some major goals and targets itself for the next five years. The Alliance plans to have over one billion users globally directly associated with the DeFi developments.
The latest funding introduced will help the alliance members to further formalize and fuel its accelerator program. This will thus provide necessary resources to DeFi startups to build, deploy, and grow their platforms. Besides, the alliance also plans to offer DeFi-focused ‘tracks’ in addition to the existing ones.
This will provide startups additional assistance with regulations, institutional liquidity, recruiting, and growth. These new ‘tracks’ will be specifically for Asian DeFi startups, NFTs, and other institutional educational platforms. Synthetix founder Kain Warwick has acknowledged this new financial support for DeFi startups. He wrote:
“Being part of the first cohort had such a huge impact for us, helping for several key strategic partnerships that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. The impact they have on early stage projects is even larger. Excited to see all the new projects they fund”.
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