Weekly Recap

Despite 24% fewer deals this week, total funding rose 38% from $157 million to $217 million, largely due to Farcaster’s $150 million Series A round (DotW). There was only one other Web3 deal besides Farcaster, which was the leading category from a funding perspective. Similarly, Series A rounds were the leader in funding this week, totaling $158 million across just two deals: Farcaster and an $8 million fundraise completed by WeatherXM, a dePIN project focused on a new weather network. Infrastructure had $44 million in funding across nine deals, DeFi had $18 million acro...