Republic Labs Leads $5M Private Round for Cere Network (CERE), a Decentralized Data Cloud Platform  Crowdfund Insider. : Cere Network (Cere), which claims to be the first Decentralized Data Cloud (DDC) platform, recently announced a $5 million private round and the official launch of their platform to application developers. Republic Labs, the investment division of the crowdsourced funding platform, Republic, will reportedly be the first blockchain company investment for the firm.