Aether Holdings Forms Joint Venture with Oort to Build Data Infrastructure for Financial AI

On March 31, 2026, Aether Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR) and OORTech Inc. (OORT) formed a joint venture, Aether DataHub, LLC, to build and operate a financial AI data-labeling and dataset-curation platform. The platform is intended to produce institutional-grade, domain-specific training data for financial AI applications and specialized large language models. It will use OORT’s DataHub […]
zkPass Raises $12.5 Million Series A at $100 Million Token Valuation

In October 2024, zkPass, a privacy-preserving protocol for data verification, raised $12.5 million in a Series A funding round. The round was structured as a simple agreement for future tokens (SAFT), giving zkPass a fully diluted token valuation of $100 million. Investors included dao5, Animoca Brands, Flow Traders, Amber Group, IOBC Capital, Signum Capital, MH […]
Flare Raises $35 Million in Private Round Including Aves Lair

In February 2024, Layer-1 blockchain Flare raised $35 million in a private round that included investment from Kenetic, Aves Lair, and others. Aves Lair has since rebranded as Syntax Capital. Flare is a Layer-1 network for data that supports smart contract protocols and focuses on pricing oracles, which relay asset prices to and from decentralized […]
Binance Labs, Sequoia China and Others Invest $2.5 Million in zkPass

In August 2023, zkPass raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round. Investors included Binance Labs, Sequoia China, OKX Ventures, dao5, SIG DT Investments, Cypher Capital, Leland Ventures, and Blockchain Founders Fund. zkPass uses zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and transport layer security to let users disclose personal data from any website without revealing or uploading […]