Fosun leads funding in Yunphant Blockchain and 10 more updates from Greater China

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Hangzhou-headquartered smart blockchain services developer Yunphant Blockchain has closed its Series B round of financing, raising a corpus of over 100 million yuan ($15 million), it said on Thursday.

The round was led by Fosun Fanyi Fund, a sub-fund of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International. Return investor Shenzhen Capital Group along with new backer Hangzhou Hotland Development Fund also participated in the fresh round, the investee said in a WeChat post.

Yunphant will invest the proceeds for business development, talent recruitment, technology innovation and digital finance. 

Set up in 2014, the startup offers AI-driven blockchain infrastructure services that can help protect security for digital finance. 

Yunphant’s other investors include Hyperspace Capital, Granview Asset Management, Zhejiang Yongxi Asset Management and WI Harper Group. 

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DealStreetAsia has also put together a table listing out all prominent venture capital transactions in the Greater China region on May 26 – 27, 2021. 

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