Despite the late-quarter rebound, the combined amount for the second quarter could not match the nearly $6 billion invested in crypto startups between January and March.
Nevertheless, it is still double the amount of venture capital money flowing into crypto in last year’s second quarter.
Stand-out Q2 transactions
Large cheques remained selective in the second quarter. Twenty One Capital received $585 million, the largest funding round of the previous quarter.
Furthermore, Eigen Labs received $70 million from Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z, which purchased additional EIGEN tokens.
Other significant funding rounds from the second quarter include Hypernative’s $40 million round and Symbiotic’s $29 million.
While the deal count slipped to multi-year lows in May, at just 62 rounds, the quarter’s median round size remained above $10 million, indicating that investors continued to fund later-stage and infrastructure projects.
Sector mix and geographic notes
DeFi infrastructure, restaking, and AI-linked middleware captured the largest tickets, mirroring the public market’s narrative rotation.
North American companies attracted the majority of the raises last quarter, primarily due to larger Series B and later rounds of funding. At the same time, early-stage activity in Asia and the Middle East edged higher in token-focused seed deals.
Despite the slower pace of funding registered in the previous quarter, the year-to-date total of roughly $10.3 billion already exceeds the full-year figure of $9.6 billion for 2024.
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