DEX Aggregator ParaSwap Raises $2.7M Seed Round From Deep Roster of Crypto Investors

Sep 17, 2020 at 11:00 UTC

Paraglider takes flight (Juliette G./Unsplash)

ParaSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator, has completed a $2.7 million seed funding round joined by some of the industry’s top investors.

France-based ParaSwap hopes its API will become the connective tissue between various decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, founder Mounir Benchemled told CoinDesk via email.
“The API does not only allow access to DEXs but also to other DeFi services such as Aave and Compound,” Benchemled said.
According to a press release Thursday, ParaSwap raised the seed funding from a total of 32 investors including Blockchain Capital, Alameda Research, Arrington XRP Capital, Coinfund, CoinGecko, Aave founder Stani Kulechov and others.
While ParaSwap was started as DEX aggregator, Benchemled said the firm shifted focus in late 2019 to fine-tuning its API and making the platform an easy-to-use entry point for DeFi applications, traders and wallets.
“Our next steps are growing the team and scaling ParaSwap’s infrastructure so that we can support our next business challenges,” he said in the release.