Venture Capital Lightspeed Faction Starts $285M Fund for Blockchain Startups

Faction, a joint venture with a $25 billion asset-under-management VC firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, typically invests in seed-stage and Series A funding rounds. The firm has investments in Crossmint, Lens, Narya.ai, Skip.money and Matter Labs, the development team behind the zkSync layer-2 network atop Ethereum.