Hillrise Group Announcements

2023-03-16 05:39:00 Hillrise Ventures Announces Investment in DoraHacks
Published March 16, 2023

Hillrise Ventures today announces an investment into DoraHacks  — a global hackathon organizer and host to one of the world's most active Web3 developer communities.

"DoraHacks is fortunate to work with many partners from around the globe. The team at Hillrise Group show a great level of expertise within the industry and are able to help us support early stage founders and developers contributing to the further advancement of Web3 as a whole. We look forward to our long term partnership with Hillrise." — Steve Ngok, Partner at DoraHacks

Hillrise Ventures joins a group of industry leading partners including Binance Labs, Circle Ventures, Liberty City Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Sky 9 Capital, Emurgo Ventures, and more.

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2022-08-30 02:17:08 Hillrise Ventures Announces Investment in AstridDAO
Published August 30, 2022

Hillrise Ventures today announces an investment into AstridDAO — a capital-efficient decentralized money market and multi-collateral stablecoin protocol built for Astar Network. Hillrise Ventures is the private investment arm of Hillrise Group.

"Hillrise Group is a great venture partner to work with. We are looking forward to collaborating and bringing a better DeFi experience and becoming the dominant native stablecoin in Astar Network and the Polkadot ecosystem." — Joe Wu, CEO of AstridDAO

Hillrise Ventures joins a group of industry leading partners including DFG, NextWeb Capital, Global Founders Capital, AU21, Castle Seal Holdings, Digital Strategies.

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2022-08-22 07:13:08 Hillrise Ventures Announces Investment in DEFY Labs
Published August 22, 2022

Hillrise Ventures today announces an investment into DEFY Labs — the developer of the immersive augmented reality play-to-earn mobile game DEFY. Hillrise Ventures is the private investment arm of Hillrise Group.

"DEFY's biggest picture vision is to revolutionise move-to-earn gaming by bridging the virtual and physical worlds. We are delighted to partner with strong investors such as Hillrise Ventures and the invaluable experience they bring in helping us achieve our goals." — Tom Threlfall, Cofounder of DEFY Labs

Hillrise Ventures joins a group of industry leading partners including Animoca Brands, OliveX, Spartan Group, GameFi Ventures, Play It Forward DAO, Unanimous Capital, PathDAO, and Bixin Ventures.

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2022-05-02 03:27:30 Sigmadex: Why We Are Working with Hillrise Group
Published April 28, 2022

In this article we hear from Hillrise Ventures portfolio company Sigmadex on why they are working with Hillrise Group.

"The Hillrise team has a real connection within our industry and the projects they are involved with. As leaders their laser-focused approach coupled with their ability to execute lead us to a natural partnership." – Roland Haggins, Co-Founder Sigmadex

Sigmadex completed a US $2.7m private investment round in 2021 with participation from Hillrise Ventures and others.

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2022-04-26 05:50:29 Hillrise Ventures Announces Investment in The Metakey
Published April 26, 2022

Hillrise Ventures today announces an investment into The Metakey — a massively interoperable cross-platform key to the metaverse. Hillrise Ventures is the private investment arm of Hillrise Group.

With over 6,000 Metakey holders, each Metakey is an ERC-1155 NFT that can be used as an access pass to the metaverse. The raise will support development of The Metakey’s new social hub New Ganymede, as well as the roll out of new partner integrations, team growth, and releases of further Metakey editions.

Hillrise Ventures joins Animoca Brands, DCG, Sfermion, B3V, SkyVision Capital, Double Peak, Spartan Group, Everest Ventures Group, Kenetic Capital and other key industry players in The Metakey’s $3.5m Seed investment round.

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2022-01-21 04:03:26 AMA Series: Bluzelle
Published January 21, 2022

On Thursday 20 January, we welcomed Pavel Bains of Bluzelle into the Hillrise Group Telegram chat for an AMA about Bluzelle’s technology and ventures into the GameFi environment.

You might recall Bluzelle as a prominent name just a few years ago, well they are still around and innovating with their current ecosystem to foster growth in the GameFi movement.

Here's our summary of the best Q&A from the event!

AMA Highlights (9 min. read)
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2022-01-19 12:25:44 Telegram AMA: Bluzelle
Thursday 20 January, 09:30 UTC

Tomorrow we welcome Pavel Bains of Bluzelle for an AMA about Bluzelle's technology and ventures into the GameFi environment.

You might recall Bluzelle as a prominent name just a few years ago, well they are still around and innovating with their current ecosystem to foster growth in the GameFi movement.

Bluzelle position themselves as a blockchain to the metaverse and we look forward to discussing the four point framework to their solution.

Join us to learn more about how Bluzelle is positioning as the go-to infrastructure for GameFi!

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Where is the AMA held?
https://t.me/hillrisegroupchat
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2022-01-19 06:04:45 AMA Series: KILT Protocol
Published January 19, 2022

Identity on the blockchain has been a difficult puzzle to solve, names have come and gone while KILT has survived the test of time.

Founded in 2018, KILT has built a blockchain protocol within the Polkadot ecosystem for issuing self-sovereign, anonymous, and revocable verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.

Recently, KILT Coins hit the market which will be used for payment, on-chain activity (governance), and staking purposes to name a few.

Here's our summary of the best Q&A from the event!

AMA Highlights (9 min. read)
https://go.hillrise.group/kiltprotocol-amahighlights
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2022-01-17 10:27:24 Telegram AMA: KILT Protocol
Tuesday 18 January, 09:00 UTC

Tomorrow we welcome Ingo Ruebe of KILT Protocol for an AMA about self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials for Web3.

Identity on the blockchain has been a difficult puzzle to solve, names have come and gone while KILT has survived the test of time.

Founded in 2018, KILT has built a blockchain protocol within the Polkadot ecosystem for issuing self-sovereign, anonymous, and revocable verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.

Recently, KILT Coins hit the market which will be used for payment, on-chain activity (governance), and staking purposes to name a few.

Join us to learn more about how KILT Protocol is building a monetized trust market for identity!

When is the AMA?
https://go.hillrise.group/kiltprotocol-ama

Where is the AMA held?
https://t.me/hillrisegroupchat
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2022-01-10 08:09:09 AMA Series: Avocado Guild
Published January 5, 2022

Avocado Guild is one of the largest and most successful Guilds in existence. With over 50,000 Discord members and more than 10,000 ‘Scholars’ — Avocado Guild has earned more than 73m SLP in Axie Infinity.

This was an interesting conversation as Guilds have shown potential to be very important foundational supports for the continued growth of blockchain-enabled gaming.

Avocado Guild has raised USD$18m from a stacked list of supporters including Animoca Brands, Solana Ventures, Three Arrows Capital, QSN, Hashed, BSC, Polygon, Algorand, and Kenetic Capital.

Here's our summary of the best Q&A from the event!

AMA Highlights (12 min. read)
https://go.hillrise.group/avocadoguild-amahighlights
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