Fairfax County Invests Total of $21 Million in Blockchain VC Fund

The $5 million capital allocation precedes Abra's integration with the Stellar blockchain......»»

The two Fairfax County, Virginia, pension funds invested only 0.5 percent in crypto and blockchain last year......»»

Blockchain Capital will invest the capital in cryptocurrency-focused projects. This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here. Ripple, the fintech star.....»»

It remains to be seen whether Alpine-X LLC will ultimately get to build Fairfax Peak, its proposed, $200 million flagship indoor snow sports facility atop a capped landfill in Fairfax County, Virginia, but the company is already looking to export the.....»»

CVS Health Corp. said Thursday that it will launch CVS Health Ventures, a venture fund that invests in and partners with early-stage companies focused on .....»»

Re-Fund The Police? LA County Increases Funding by $36 Million Months After Budget Cuts Authored by Zachary Steiber via The Epoch Times, Officials in Los Angeles County on Thursday voted to increase fundin.....»»

Baltimore-area bankruptcy courts recorded one business filing –– including one with total debt above $1 million –– during the week that ended Feb. 19. Year-to-date through Feb. 19, the court recorded five Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 busine.....»»

SoftBank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBY) is planning to launch two more SPACs. What Happened: The two SPACs aim to raise a total of $550 million in their IPOs, Reuters reported, citing regulatory filings. read more.....»»

LL Cool J Invests In $72 Million Crypto Fund First it was the outcasts. Then it was the "forward thinking" silico.....»»

The new $25 million fund — which uses money from the $387 million Honolulu County received through the CARES Act — can be used by eligible Oahu small businesses to mitigate some of the loss related to the Covid-19 pandemic......»»

David Cannon/Getty Images Hedge-fund billionaire Julian Robertson received a total of $1.2 million NZ ($800,000 USD) from the New Zealand government to pay employees at his luxury.....»»

San Antonio will receive $1.8 million from Housing and Urban Development to fund its housing rental assistance program. The $1,849,080 is out of the total $2.8 million HUD will allocate to 14 other Texas cities, and also makes the Alamo City fund.....»»

While FOMO drives up bitcoin's price and derivatives market, Telegram announces another delay and Andreessen Horowitz raises a $515 million fund......»»

Gapless, a Berlin-based blockchain startup, has received €5.5 million ($6m) seed financing round, led by a top blockchain developer’s investment vehicle. The FinLab EOS VC Fund, a joint project from FinLab and… The post Berlin Blo.....»»

More than 300 companies requesting a combined $7.6 million applied for Mecklenburg County’s new small-business loan program over the past two weeks, according to the county’s economic development division. The total amount available is $5 mill.....»»

Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc. has awarded more than $1.1 million in emergency grant allocations to nearly four dozen health and social service agencies in its 74-county service area to fund Covid-19 response and recovery efforts. .....»»

The City & County of Honolulu matched a $1 million donation from the Hawaii Community Foundation’s Hawaii Resilience Fund for Covid-19 relief efforts to provide food assistance to recently unemployed individuals, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced .....»»

Some 533,600 additional Californians filed for unemployment claims last week, bringing the total number of residents who have sought financial help to almost 3.4 million since the Covid-19 crisis began. It's become a new, uncomfortable ritual on .....»»

Three dozen Forsyth County nonprofits with needs brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic received a little bit of breathing room this week.  The second round of grants from the Covid-19 Response Fund for Forsyth County –– totaling more than $1.4 m.....»»

Netflix Inc has increased the amount of money in its coronavirus emergency relief fund by $50 million, bringing the total for displaced production workers to $150 million, a company spokeswoman said on Friday......»»