Shervin Pishevar

LIMIT BREAK RAISES $200 MILLION DOLLARS

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Monday, August 29, 2022

PARK CITY, Utah, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limit Break Inc., a company founded by Gabriel Leydon and Halbert Nakagawa, announces it has raised $200 million dollars in investment capital from Buckley Ventures, Standard Crypto, and Paradigm Ventures.

Key Points: 
  • PARK CITY, Utah, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limit Break Inc., a company founded by Gabriel Leydon and Halbert Nakagawa, announces it has raised $200 million dollars in investment capital from Buckley Ventures, Standard Crypto, and Paradigm Ventures.
  • Limit Break, known for the DigiDaigaku NFT collection, also raised from investors including FTX, Coinbase Ventures, Anthos Capital, SV Angel, and Shervin Pishevar.
  • Leydon and Nakagawa are known as pioneers of "Free-to-Play" gaming, but are taking a completely new turn with Limit Break.
  • Its name was inspired by the "Limit Break" combat sequence popularized in RPG games like the Final Fantasy series.

LIMIT BREAK RAISES $200 MILLION DOLLARS

Retrieved on: 
Monday, August 29, 2022

PARK CITY, Utah, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limit Break Inc., a company founded by Gabriel Leydon and Halbert Nakagawa, announces it has raised $200 million dollars in investment capital from Buckley Ventures, Standard Crypto, and Paradigm Ventures.

Key Points: 
  • PARK CITY, Utah, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limit Break Inc., a company founded by Gabriel Leydon and Halbert Nakagawa, announces it has raised $200 million dollars in investment capital from Buckley Ventures, Standard Crypto, and Paradigm Ventures.
  • Limit Break, known for the DigiDaigaku NFT collection, also raised from investors including FTX, Coinbase Ventures, Anthos Capital, SV Angel, and Shervin Pishevar.
  • Leydon and Nakagawa are known as pioneers of "Free-to-Play" gaming, but are taking a completely new turn with Limit Break.
  • Its name was inspired by the "Limit Break" combat sequence popularized in RPG games like the Final Fantasy series.

Postmates VP Akshay Thakor Joins Turing's Executive Team & Uber's Former Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta joins as Investor & Advisor

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

"Akshay built the systems and community for Postmates that were instrumental in Postmates' market success and eventual acquisition by Uber," said Jonathan Siddharth, CEO & co-founder of Turing.

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  • "Akshay built the systems and community for Postmates that were instrumental in Postmates' market success and eventual acquisition by Uber," said Jonathan Siddharth, CEO & co-founder of Turing.
  • Manik Gupta , former Chief Product Officer for Uber and an angel investor in many fast-scaling startups, will be joining the advisory board.
  • "Manik is a key addition to our Advisory Board given his experience as Chief Product Officer for Uber," said Siddharth.
  • "As Uber's Chief Product Officer I had the opportunity to build and scale a global, real-time marketplace," said Gupta.

Coinmine Raises Seed Round

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Thursday, August 15, 2019

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Coinmine, an LA-based consumer crypto hardware and software company is pleased to announce a $2.5M Seed round of financing led by LA-based M13.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Coinmine, an LA-based consumer crypto hardware and software company is pleased to announce a $2.5M Seed round of financing led by LA-based M13.
  • The round also includes Republic Labs, Gumi Crypto, Canaan Beta and early Uber investor Shervin Pishevar.
  • Coinmine's flagship device, the Coinmine One, is the only plug-n-play crypto device and is completely controlled from Coinmine's iOS and Android mobile apps.
  • With this new funding, Coinmine will also expand its engineering team to continue adding new features, as well as new cryptocurrencies to the Coinmine One's operating system, MineOS.