​​Messari raises $35M from Brevan Howard and other investors | Crypto_NFT

​​Messari raises $35M from Brevan Howard and other investors

Messari has closed a $35 million Series B funding round led by billionaire Alan Howard's Brevan Howard Digital.

The round also included FTX Ventures, Morgan Creek Digital, Samsung Next, and current investors Point72 Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, Galaxy, and Coinbase Ventures.

The funds raised by the Messari team will be used to finance product development and team expansion.

“We are delighted to welcome a remarkable group of investors as partners in the next phase of growth,” said founder and CEO Ryan Selkis.

Sources told The Block earlier that Messari's valuation from this funding round could rise to $300 million. At the time, Selkis said that the company did not need money and "never spent a single cent of investor capital when scaling up to 130 people."

Recall that in the fall of 2019, the company raised $4 million from Uncork Capital, Blockchain Capital, CoinFund, Coinbase Ventures and others.

In August 2021, Messari closed a $21 million Series A funding round. The startup was backed by billionaire Steve Cohen through Point72 Ventures, Alameda Capital, Galaxy Digital, crypto funds CMS Holdings, Nascent, Underscore VC and early stage investors.