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Lukka provides services to both traditional financial firms and cryptocurrency companies including Arca, Circle, CPA.com, eToro, IHS Markit, S&P Dow Jones Indices and State Street The investment comes nine months after its last funding round of $53 million Crypto asset software and data provider Lukka closed its $110 million Series E, valuing it at over $1.3 billion, the company’s CEO Robert Materazzi exclusively told Blockworks on Friday.

“There’s a ton of momentum in the crypto industry as a whole, and Lukka’s at the center of that,” he said.

“We help them solve the most complex data challenges in the world and those challenges are more and more present with all the innovation going on in crypto,” Materazzi said.

“We’re going to see industry by industry adopt crypto in different ways,” he said.

Going forward, Lukka will release more “thoughtful institutional data products, in addition to ones launched last year,” to grow upon its existing data services, Materazzi shared.

“Data is powering the world — and everything we’re doing here is driven by data,” Materazzi said.