{"id":190766,"date":"2026-07-01T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=190766"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:50:22","slug":"dragonfly-leads-65m-bet-on-erik-voorhees-venice-ai-as-startup-reaches-unicorn-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=190766","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly Leads $65M Bet on Erik Voorhees\u2019 Venice AI as Startup Reaches Unicorn Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venice AI, the privacy-focused artificial intelligence (AI) platform founded by bitcoin advocate Erik Voorhees, closed a $65 million Series A round at a $1 billion post-money valuation. Crypto venture firm Dragonfly led the round. Coinbase Ventures, North Island Ventures, Archetype, Morgan Creek Digital, and Liquid 2 Ventures also participated. The July 1 announcement marks Venice\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venice AI, the privacy-focused artificial intelligence (AI) platform founded by bitcoin advocate Erik Voorhees, closed a $65 million Series A round at a $1 billion post-money valuation. Crypto venture firm Dragonfly led the round. Coinbase Ventures, North Island Ventures, Archetype, Morgan Creek Digital, and Liquid 2 Ventures also participated. The July 1 announcement marks Venice\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":190767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}