BlockBeats News, November 15th, according to techinasia report, Tether is in negotiations for a lead investment in the German humanoid robot startup Neura Robotics in a round of 1 billion euros (approximately 1.2 billion dollars), a move that is expected to raise Neura's valuation to 8-10 billion euros (approximately 9.3-11.6 billion dollars).

Known for issuing the USDT stablecoin, Tether continues to expand its investment portfolio, having already invested in over 140 companies. The current fundraising by Neura aims to drive its humanoid robots to industrial customers and plan future entry into the consumer market. This German company just completed a 120 million euro (approximately 139 million dollars) funding round in January this year, with investors including Lingotto Fund, BlueCrest, C4 Ventures, and Volvo Cars Tech Fund.

BlockBeats News, November 13, Web3 AI Agent AgentLISA announced the completion of a $12 million financing round, with participation from Redpoint Ventures, UOB Venture Management, Signum Capital, NGC Ventures, Hash Global, LongHash Ventures, M23 Capital, Kryptos, Fellows Fund, ByteTrade Lab, Summer Ventures, and Woori Ventures.

The financing will be used to develop its AI agent security framework to discover complex multi-step vulnerabilities often overlooked by traditional scanners and manual audits.

BlockBeats News, November 13th, Cryptocurrency funding platform Shodai Network announced the completion of a $2.5 million seed round financing, with investors including Consensys, Consensys Mesh, and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin. This investment will help Shodai Network expand its founder network and further develop its funding support platform.

Shodai Network has brought together a group of entrepreneurs, developers, and industry veterans in the crypto space to empower early-stage developers to access resources, connect with other entrepreneurs, and strategically scale their projects. Through its product division, Shodai focuses on the research and development of new funding technologies and the creation of open-source capital-raising tools, aiming to align protocol developers and investors' incentives in the early stages of protocol development.

BlockBeats News, November 12, according to Fortune report, crypto blockchain Seismic announced the completion of a $10 million funding round, led by a16z crypto, with participation from Polychain, Amber Group, TrueBridge, dao5, and LayerZero.

Prior to this, on March 6, 2025, Seismic announced the completion of a $7 million seed round, led by a16z crypto, with participation from Polychain Capital, 1kx, dao5, and NGC Ventures.

BlockBeats News, November 11th. According to official sources, YZi Labs announced an investment in Renewal Bio, a regenerative medicine company that utilizes developmental biology technology to generate DNA-matched human cells and tissues from patient-derived pluripotent stem cells.

Renewal Bio addresses global organ and cell shortages through its Stembroid development platform, which can generate human cells and tissues that are fully genetically matched to the donor DNA for transplantation.

This new round of funding will accelerate the preclinical development of Stembroid-derived hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for leukemia and immune disorders and expand research on liver, heart, and pancreatic cells.

BlockBeats News, November 11th, according to Fortune magazine, Perp DEX Lighter has announced the completion of a new $68 million funding round.

Lighter's 40-year-old founder and CEO, Vladimir Novakovski, stated that this funding round was led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and fintech investor Ribbit Capital, with participation from Haun Ventures and online brokerage Robinhood (the latter rarely participates in venture capital).

According to sources familiar with the matter, this funding round has valued Lighter at around $1.5 billion. Novakovski declined to disclose valuation details but mentioned that this funding round includes both equity and token subscription rights.

BlockBeats News, November 10, according to The Block, Republic Technologies (Canadian Securities Exchange stock code: DOCT) announced on Monday that it has received a $100 million zero-coupon convertible bond from a certain "leading institutional investor" to expand its staking node business and increase its Ethereum holdings. Over 90% of the funds raised will be used to acquire ETH, with an initial $10 million already underway.

Republic disclosed that this transaction includes 50% warrant coverage, priced at market value, avoiding the deep discount issue that previously plagued peers such as BitMine Immersion and BTCS, and defined the terms as "cash flow neutral," allowing it to deploy capital without the need for debt repayment.

BlockBeats News, November 8th. The peer-to-peer Bitcoin transaction protocol Rift announced that it has received $8 million in funding from Paradigm to promote native Bitcoin transactions on Ethereum and other platforms.

BlockBeats News, November 8th, Kyo Finance announced that it has completed a $5 million Series A funding round, with a valuation of $1 billion. This round of funding was led by Castrum Istanbul, TBV, and BZB Capital.

The core goal of the protocol remains to establish a single liquidity layer to eliminate chain barriers and complexity in Decentralized Finance (DeFi).