BlockBeats News, November 1st, according to Forbes report, UK AI video generation company Synthesia has completed a new $200 million financing round, with a valuation of $4 billion. This new round of financing will be led by Google Ventures, and Nvidia may participate. Prior to this, Synthesia had raised $280 million, with investments from Nvidia and Adobe.

Synthesia was founded in 2017 and, unlike video generation tools like Sora, focuses on helping businesses use AI-generated virtual avatars for video production, used in marketing, employee training, etc. Currently, 60,000 companies are using Synthesia's platform to create their own AI avatar videos.

BlockBeats News, November 1st, according to Techinasia report, Web3 platform KapKap has completed a $10 million seed round of funding, led by Animoca Brands, with participation from Shima Capital, Mechanism Capital, Klaytn Foundation, and Big Brain Holdings.

KapKap will use this funding to develop its KAPS (Key Attention Pricing System) reputation system, expand collaborations with game developers, and launch new casual games.

BlockBeats News, October 31st, MEV Infrastructure Semantic Layer announced the completion of a $2 million Series A financing round, led by Greenfield Capital. The total funding has now reached $5 million.

The new funds will be used to advance on-chain artificial intelligence autonomy and enable autonomous ordering rights for agents, decentralized applications (dApps), and assets.

BlockBeats previously reported that on October 9, 2024, Semantic Layer announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round led by Figment Capital, with participation from Hack VC, Robot Ventures, and Bankless Ventures.

BlockBeats News, October 30th, Legal AI startup Harvey has secured $1.5 billion in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, with a valuation of $8 billion.

This marks Harvey's third significant funding round in 2025, bringing its total funding for the year to nearly $750 million. The company, founded in 2022 in San Francisco by Winston Weinberg and Gabriel Pereyra, focuses on developing AI legal tools that can analyze contracts, draft documents, and summarize cases to help law firms and corporate legal teams improve work efficiency.

BlockBeats News, October 30th, Decentralized AI Trustworthy Verification Network DeepSafe announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, with participation from Antalpha Global, Viabtc Capital, Capital Spark, Cogitent Ventures, Sharding Capital, Mason Eagle, Gate, SatoshiLab HK, and CKB Eco Fund.

BlockBeats News, October 30, according to Fortune report, Mastercard is in talks to acquire crypto infrastructure startup Zerohash for $15 billion to $20 billion. If the deal goes through, it will be one of its largest moves in the stablecoin field.

Zerohash was founded in 2017, headquartered in Chicago, with a business covering stablecoins and crypto trading infrastructure, providing technical services including asset tokenization APIs to institutional clients.

In September this year, Zerohash announced a $1.04 billion Series D funding round at a $10 billion valuation, led by Interactive Brokers, with participation from Morgan Stanley, SoFi, Apollo, and others.

BlockBeats News, October 29th, according to Blockworks, the cryptocurrency lending platform Accountable has completed a $7.5 million funding round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from OKX Ventures, Onigiri Capital, and KPK, among other institutions.

Previously, Accountable had raised $2.3 million in funding by the end of 2024 and will use the new funding to expand the team, with plans to launch the mainnet in mid-November.

BlockBeats News, October 28th, according to Fortune magazine, stablecoin payment startup Standard Economics announced the completion of a $9 million seed round financing, led by crypto venture capital firm Paradigm, with participation from Lightspeed and strategic angel investors.

It is reported that the startup plans to use this funding to develop its application, aimed at creating an "all-in-one platform" that allows global users to send cross-border payments or remittances, while obtaining USD through stablecoins. Co-founder and CEO Evan Jones declined to disclose the company's valuation. The company currently has six employees and has not generated revenue.

Standard Economics' first product, the Uno application, launched in Mexico on Tuesday, supporting iOS and Android. The app is designed to allow users to freely use a full set of banking tools, including domestic payments and remittances to other countries. After the Mexico launch, the company plans to roll out Uno to Argentina, the Philippines, and other countries in Latin America and Asia.

BlockBeats News, October 28th, according to Bloomberg, stablecoin startup ZAR has raised $12.9 million in a new funding round, led by a16z, with participation from Dragonfly Capital, VanEck Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and Endeavor Catalyst.

ZAR aims to leverage Pakistan's ubiquitous phone kiosks, convenience stores, and money agents to test a dollar-backed digital currency in everyday life. ZAR launched its platform earlier this year. Users can walk into local stores, scan a QR code, and exchange cash for digital dollars in their mobile wallets. The idea is that they can then use these digital currencies in stores without needing to understand stablecoins or blockchain technology. The startup has stated that its wallet is linked to a globally accepted Visa card.