{"id":65580,"date":"2022-08-10T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65580"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:46:50","slug":"media-reports-that-messari-plans-to-raise-funds-at-a-300-million-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-reports-that-messari-plans-to-raise-funds-at-a-300-million-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Media reports that Messari plans to raise funds at a $300 million valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messari is in the process of raising $35 million. The analytics company&#8217;s valuation following the round could rise to $300 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/162306\/crypto-analytics-platform-messari-plots-raise-at-300-million-valuation\">The Block<\/a> reports, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, several potential investors have already expressed interest in investing in Messari.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Ryan Selkis declined to comment on the potential round. He stressed that the company does not need money and &#8220;not a single cent of investor capital has been spent in scaling to 130 people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We are continuing to build the largest crypto-information business on a subscription basis, and we are focused on preparing the release of a set of new products at Mainnet (the conference organised by Messari) this September,&#8221; Selkis told the publication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the autumn of 2019 the company raised $4 million from Uncork Capital, Blockchain Capital, CoinFund, Coinbase Ventures and others.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2021 Messari closed a Series A round <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/steve-cohen-backs-messari-in-21-million-series-a\">for $21 million<\/a>. The startup was backed by billionaire Steve Cohen through Point72 Ventures, Alameda Capital, Galaxy Digital, crypto funds CMS Holdings, Nascent, Underscore VC and early investors.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Messari and Dove Metrics <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/venture-investment-in-the-industry-in-the-first-half-tops-30-billion\">assessed the volume of funding for blockchain startups<\/a> for January\u2013June 2022 at $30.3 billion. More than a third of the funds in 1,199 investment rounds were raised by the centralised finance sector.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messari is in the process of raising $35 million. The analytics company&#8217;s valuation following the round could rise to $300 million, The Block reports, citing sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65581,"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":[1468,1133],"class_list":["post-65580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-messari","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580","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=65580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65582,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65580\/revisions\/65582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}