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🎧 Founders and investors both need each other to succeed. But they don't always understand each other. On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, Rumi Morales speaks with Miko Matsumura about the cultural gaps between founders and investors, drawing on Miko's personal experience from both sides of the table. This episode is a must-listen for any entrepreneur or investor looking to bridge the gap 👇

We are thrilled to share that RedStone Oracles, a Bering Waters portfolio company, has successfully closed a $15M Series A fundraising round led by Arrington Capital. RedStone’s modular architecture offers unmatched oracle capabilities, providing unique price feeds for yield-bearing collateral like LSTs and LRTs. Its updated modular pricing engine ensures accuracy and introduces innovative models such as slippage-based weighting RedStone supports multiple EVM and non-EVM ecosystems, rollups, and appchains, making it an ideal partner for various providers. This flexibility supports DeFi dApps with both Classic (Push) and Core (Pull) data models, ensuring oracle readiness for new chains Ranked 5th in Total Volume Secured, RedStone covers 1,100+ assets from 180+ data sources, integrating with 50+ blockchain. With Miami based Arrington Capital as the lead investor, this Series A round saw major participation from VCs — Kraken Ventures, White Star Capital, Amber Group, The Spartan Group, SevenX Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Protagonist, Samara Asset Group, HTX Ventures & gumi Cryptos Capital. Additional participants — Selini Capital, Alphemy Capital SA, Kenetic Ventures, Fourth Revolution Capital, Triton Liquid Fund, Relayer Capital, Thanefield, Cluster Capital, Chorus One Ventures, Flowdesk, nonce Classic, & Revolo Intel. Notable angel investors also participated in the round:  Smokey the Bera and Homme Bera, Co-Founders of Berachain  ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze, COO Jozef Vogel, and Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer Rok Kopp Puffer Labs: Contributors Amir Forouzani and Jason Vranek, and CMO Christina C. Vic JI, Co-Founder at Manta Ray Labs Ashwath Balakrishnan, Research Lead at Delphi Digital Daniel Dizon, Founder of Swell Labs Additional angel investors: Philipp Zentner, CEO at LI.FI, Bitmap Tech, DeFi Dad and Nomatic at Fourth Revolution Capital, Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder at 0G Labs Jakub Wojciechowski and Marcin Kaźmierczak ⛓️ are an exceptional leadership team steering RedStone Oracles. Their dedication and hands-on approach ensure smooth collaboration and efficient problem-solving. Jakub's strategic vision and Marcin's commercial acumen create a dynamic leadership duo that drives RedStone Oracles forward. Their accessibility and responsiveness foster a supportive environment, making them not only great partners but also invaluable assets to the team and stakeholders. We're proud to support RedStone’s journey and look forward to its continued success! Under Ewelina Leszczak leadership, Nihal Samuel, Senior Analyst and Portfolio Growth Lead, and Yuriy Kashnikoff (PhD), our Tech Lead, have closely followed RedStone's development and can answer any questions you may have. RedStone Oracles is also previously backed by — Lemniscap, Distributed Global, Coinbase Ventures, Maven 11, Blockchain Capital, and prominent angel investors such as Stani Kulechov, Sandeep Nailwal, Alex Gluchowski and Emin Gun Sirer & Bering Waters Ventures.

Don’t miss out on our upcoming panel discussion on August 20 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale! Join us for “Under-Appreciated Ideas in Crypto VC,” featuring: - Ani Pai, Partner at Dragonfly - Catrina Wang, General Partner at Portal Ventures - Miko Matsumura, Managing Partner at gumi Cryptos Capital - Moderated by Spencer Swanson, Ventures at Plug and Play Register here: https://lnkd.in/gME7TMMw

Attention crypto founders in NYC for SBC '24: Come hang out with Miko Matsumura and me! We'll be getting caffeinated near Columbia University campus from 1-3pm next Wednesday 8/7 ☕ If you need a break from the conference or just are in town and want to meet up, come see what gumi Cryptos Capital is all about 😀 Details and rsvp link below - builders only! https://lnkd.in/g3aDqAXN