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Web3 and Crypto Checking Account Startup Juno Raises $18M, Airdrops Reward Token JCOIN – Finance Bitcoin News
Juno, the Singapore-based Web3 crypto firm that offers customers checking accounts tied to cryptoassets, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Parafi Capital. The fresh capital follows the startup’s seed round in 2019, when Juno raised $3 million from investors.
Juno Raises $18M in Funding Round Led by Parafi Capital, Crypto Startup Unveils Loyalty Token
Web3 crypto startup Juno is a digital currency company that allows customers to create a checking account by leveraging crypto assets. On October 1, it was revealed that the company has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Parafi Capital.
According to the announcement, Juno’s Series A investors also included 6th Man Ventures, Hashed, Sequoia India’s Surge, Greycroft, Jump Crypto and Uncorrelated Fund. Varun Deshpande, co-founder and CEO of Juno, told Tech Crunch reporter Manish Singh that the firm “has reached $1 billion in processing transaction volume on an annualized basis.”
The company has also launched a new token called JCOIN and Juno airdropped the new ERC20 token for “70k+ Juno users”. The latest funding round’s capital will be used to expand the company’s team and the firm’s loyalty program. JCOIN will be used for “exciting offers, collectibles and in-app boosts redeemable through JCOIN, only at the Juno Store.”
So far, the startup, which was originally started by entrepreneurs who created the Ethereum lending protocol Nuo, has raised $21 million to date, after raising $18 million in Series A and the company’s seed round in 2019. At that time in 2019, the investors backing Juno included Dragonfly Capital, Polychain Capital, Sequoia Capital, Balaji Srinivasan and Ryan Selkis.
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