# DeFi Alliance Launches $15 Million Startup Investment Fund By Coinness Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/6941 Published: 2021-02-26T08:15:04.000Z Updated: 2021-02-26T08:15:04.000Z Section: Investing > The DeFi Alliance, which includes Compound Finance’s Robert Leshner, Aave’s Stani Kulechov, and Synthetix’s Kain Warwick, among others, was launched with a mission to grow the sector to a billion users by 2025. The DeFi Alliance, which includes Compound Finance’s Robert Leshner, Aave’s Stani Kulechov, and Synthetix’s Kain Warwick, among others, was launched with a mission to grow the sector to a billion users by 2025. The Alliance’s ‘Fund I’ has been seeded by members and led by founding partners along with entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Lead investors for the $15 million fund include CMT Digital, Cumberland DRW, Susquehanna (SIG), and Cuban, who has been very active in the non-fungible token (NTF) space recently. [Coinness]() ## Links in this article - [Coinness](https://coinness.com)