ARK Raises New Crypto Fund and VCs Target Infrastructure
Funding dropped this week from $312M to just $99M. As we've seen all month, funding remains primarily concentrated in Infrastructure and Web3, which raised $37M and $28M, respectively. Infrastructure accounted for 9 of this week's 21 deals, and Web3 & NFTs accounted for 6. DeFi remains a laggard this week, receiving just $6M of funding
One major crypto fund was raised this week –Cathie Wood's ARK's Crypto Revolutions Fund, which raised over $16M. The fund is split between a fund based in the U.S., which raised ~$7.2M from nine investors, and a fund based in the Cayman Islands, which raised ~$9M from one investor. This raise comes just after the ARK Innovation ETF received a whopping $397M of inflows last Friday, its largest influx since April 2021.
Most deals this week were done in the early stages, with 53% in seed or pre-seed rounds.
Selected Deals
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