South Korea's Kakao Leads $15 Million Raise for Public Blockchain Startup Orbs
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Hybrid blockchain platform Orbs has raised over $15 million in cryptocurrency with help from South Korean app provider Kakao. A Kakao representative told CoinDesk that its investment arm had joined the funding effort because it “always seeks to invest and support innovative startups and Orbs is a good example.” The startup raised 139,000 ether ($12,371,000) and 892 bitcoin ($3,017,026), which amounts to about $15.4 million as of press time. “A lot of the funds have been used for R&D and research, and one of the other verticals that are very important is obviously to enable the growth of the ecosystem around the infrastructure … The test product is already live, and people can use the APIs and we’ve released a testnet version.” The mainnet is scheduled to go live in April 2019. Orbs has been running its fundraiser over the past year, converting some of the cryptocurrency raised into fiat along the way to avoid the market decline since January. At the current burn rate, he projects that Orbs has sufficiently full coffers to operate for another seven years without additional fundraising.
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