The CEO talked about the expansion plans of Thesis, stating that the company is looking to increase its current team of around 40 across all projects.
Thesis, a crypto venture studio, has completed a $ 21 million Series A funding round. The Series A round saw a long list of investors including ParaFi Capital, Polychain, Capital Nascent, Draper Associates, Fenbushi Capital, alongside individual investors like Josh Cincinnati, Kain Warwick, Viktor, and Lisa Bunin, and James Prestwich.
Existing investors of the firm from previous funding rounds include Polychain Capital, which again participated in this round, Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, and Paradigm. The cryptocurrency production studio according to reports plans to extend its reach in venture capital to a wider audience, and launch new projects including a Web 3 wallet set to be launched in September this year and will be its fifth studio project.
Matt Luongo, founder, and CEO of Thesis stated speaking to reporters stated that, the latest fundraiser will also see Dan Elitzer, co-founder of Nascent Join Thesis’s board of directors, adding that the Series A funding was secured through an equity round. Luongo also revealed that Thesis is now looking to enter new markets, grow its ecosystems as well as strengthen its tech capabilities. The CEO however declined to comment on the specific details.
The CEO highlighted the number of new infrastructures which continue to fill the crypto space, stating that he wants to ensure that the people who build in this space create open-source products with the communities being the sole focus and not companies or users who own them. Luongo added that he believes that the wallets should belong to the community and the users again noting that the planned Web3 portfolio is not intended to enrich the company behind the curtain, but enriching users. “If everything is close by, it is just a glorified bank,” he said.
Luongo talked about the expansion plans of Thesis, stating that the company is looking to increase its current team of around 40 across all projects. The crypto venture studio is also hiring engineers, designers, and product ideators to build decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions platform, a sector that has raked in millions this year in the crypto space.
“This investment validates the thesis model and will allow us to evolve the studio and ultimately allow our operation to be autonomous in the years to come,” Luongo stated.
The Series A funding now brings Thesis total funding to $26.5 million. The crypto production studio previously raised $5.5 million in an equity round. The company’s projects including Keep, Saddle, and Fold, have also collectively raised over $42 million, said Luongo.
Thesis was founded in 2014 and has a glowing seven-year portfolio which includes Fold, a consumer payments app, Keep Network, a confidentiality layer for public blockchains, Saddle, an automated market maker, and a decentralized exchange for swapping stablecoins. Thesis is also behind the open-source initiative project tBTC that serves millions of its users across the globe and has over $ 300 million in total locked-in value.
Fold was the world’s maiden Bitcoin-backed reward card with over $ 20 million in sales activity per month. According to the company, it has raised a total of $20 million through its partnership with Visa to bring Bitcoin to consumers and drive massive adoption of cryptocurrencies.
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