Knowde, an online marketplace for chemicals and polymers, just closed on a Series C round, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The San Jose-based startup raised $ 60 million in a round that values it lower than the $ 500 million valuation it garnered in its most recent round, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. […]
The SEC has charged an a16z and Sequoia-backed crypto startup founder with fraud
The founder of once-hyped crypto startup BitClout is facing trouble. On Tuesday, the SEC charged BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji with fraud and unregistered offering of securities, claiming he used a pseudonymous identity to avoid regulatory scrutiny while he raised over $ 257 million in cryptocurrency. BitClout, a decentralized social media platform, raised from a who’s-who […]