Earth Venture Capital invested in Sygaldry Technologies, a quantum AI startup, contributing to a total funding of $139 million. Sygaldry develops hybrid servers for efficient AI workloads, co-founded by Chad Rigetti, previously of Rigetti Computing.

Gate News message, April 17, according to Gate market data. As of the time of writing, PIPPIN (pippin) is trading at $0.0362. It is up 39.78% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.0436 and a low of $0.02575. The 24-hour trading volume is $12.4612 million, i.e., $12,461,200. Its current market cap is approximately $36.1977 million. Pippin is an SVG unicorn drawn using the latest LLM benchmarks on ChatGPT 4o. Pippin was created by Yohei Nakajima, a widely recognized innovator and thought leader in the AI VC space. He is known for his public build approach and has been at the forefront of the "AI for VC" movement, launching more than 100+ AI-driven prototypes, automated agents, and open-source projects. Its most well-known release is BabyAGI (March 2023), the first popular open-source autonomous agent with task-planning capabilities. It went viral on Twitter, accumulating millions of impressions, and generated tens of thousands of GitHub stars, dozens of Arxiv citations, and coverage by major global online publications. This news is not investment advice. Please be aware of market volatility risks when investing.

Ghanaian fintech startup appsNmobile has secured $1 million from Oasis Capital VC to expand its e-payment services, especially its virtual point-of-sale solution for MSMEs, while meeting regulatory capital requirements.

Varys Capital venture investment chief Tom Dunleavy noted that in the past six months, the crypto VC funding environment has changed significantly: well-funded projects are proactively coming to them, while most VC capital has run out or shifted to late-stage investments, extending the fundraising cycle to 2–3 months. Only a few institutions are still making early-stage investments, and in the future they may see investment opportunities on a historic scale.

Southeast Asia’s first OpenClaw Agentic Trading Event will be held in Singapore on April 16, showcasing how developers can use OpenClaw to build agentic trading applications. The event is organized by Moss in partnership with Lightspeed and blockchain VC, among others, and features guests including founders of blockchain projects.

Gate News update: On April 2, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, PIPPIN (pippin) is trading at $0.0603. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 20.56%, with a high of $0.0779 and a low of $0.0499. The 24-hour trading volume is $21.2392 million. Its current market cap is approximately $60.3162 million. Pippin is an SVG unicorn drawn using the latest LLM benchmark from ChatGPT 4o. Pippin was created by Yohei Nakajima, a widely recognized innovator and thought leader in the AI VC space. He is known for his public-building approach, and has been at the forefront of the "AI for VC" movement

Berachain announced that its native token $BERA officially launched in Japan, with spot trading now available on SBI VC Trade and supporting yen transactions. This move indicates that it has completed regulatory compliance requirements in Japan. SBI VC Trade also plans to launch a trading incentive program worth 10 million yen to attract user participation in trading.

On March 23rd, Kalshi early employees Adhi Rajaprabhakaran and Noah Zingler-Sternig are raising up to $35 million for a new venture capital fund 5c(c) Capital, focused on prediction market startups. The fund plans to invest in approximately 20 companies over the next two years, with the first close to be completed within a month.

SBI VC Trade launches USDC lending service for retail users in Japan, allowing users to earn interest by lending USDC to the platform with a maximum limit of 5,000 USDC per application. This service carries counterparty risk, as SBI may re-lend the borrowed USDC.

SBI VC Trade will launch USDC lending services in Japan on March 20, allowing users to earn yields by lending up to 5,000 USDC through fixed-term agreements. This product is a loan rather than a deposit; users must bear trading risks, cannot withdraw funds during the lending period, and face asset recovery risks.