Odaily Planet Daily News: Venture capital firm Asylum Ventures recently launched a new fund of US$55 million, mainly investing in start-up companies, and plans to invest US$1-2 million in Pre-Seed and Seed round companies. The plan is led by Notation Capital founder Nick Chirls, who is also an early investor in Livepeer, Solana, Near and Bison Trails (now Coinbase Cloud), and Jonathan Why, former head of growth at Aztec Networks. (Cointelegraph)