{"id":60046,"date":"2022-04-13T14:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T11:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60046"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:13:35","slug":"pantera-capital-raises-1-3-billion-for-web3-focused-blockchain-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/pantera-capital-raises-1-3-billion-for-web3-focused-blockchain-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantera Capital raises $1.3 billion for Web3-focused blockchain fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount raised by Pantera Capital for a fund targeting Web3 startups has reached $1.3 billion. The figure was disclosed at a client conference, according to Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n<p>As of November 2021, the vehicle had attracted targeted $600 million. At that time, the firm expected the fund to grow to $1 billion by March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Blockchain Fund&#8217;s capital will be deployed to acquire equity stakes, liquid tokens and coins prior to listing on exchanges.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cOver the next three to four weeks we will close the investment window for the fund as due diligence procedures are completed by some major institutions,\u201d<\/em> said Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CEO said that subscriptions for Blockchain Fund II 2023 would open thereafter. Its investment policy would be similar to the previous fund.<\/p>\n<p>The firm also announced the May launch of Pantera Select Fund with a target size of $200 million. Over the next 18 months the fund will select roughly 10 mature, revenue-generating projects for investment, with a focus on infrastructure, blockchain gaming, NFTs, metaverses, DEXs and DeFi.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Morehead described cryptocurrencies as the best asset for preserving savings. Earlier, the Pantera Capital CEO predicted that over the next 10\u201320 years up to 50% of all transactions, in some form, would be carried out via Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/haun-ventures-led-by-katie-haun-of-a16z-raises-1-5-billion-for-web-3-0-investments\">Haun Ventures attracted $1.5 billion<\/a> into two crypto funds focused on Web 3.0. The firm is linked to former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Katie Haun.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount raised by Pantera Capital for a fund targeting Web3 startups has reached $1.3 billion. The figure was disclosed at a client conference, according to Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1296,1133,1110],"class_list":["post-60046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-pantera-capital","tag-venture-investments","tag-web-3-0"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60048,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60046\/revisions\/60048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}