All Eyes on Infrastructure and Web3 & NFTs
Funding increased 40% week-over-week from $75 million to $105 million. Infrastructure and Web3 & NFTs dominated fundraising, representing 88% of total funding. Deal counts also rose this week, ticking up 31% to 21 deals. Deal sizes were consistent with last week’s levels, with an average of $6 million per deal. The week's largest deal was a $16.5 million token sale completed by Limewire. The ex-notorious file-sharing platform is refocusing its efforts toward a digital platform where musicians can create and monetize blockchain-based content.
Deal stage make-up stayed consistent with recent trends, with Seed deals representing 29% of funding and 43% of deal count. Pre-seed deals comprised 10% of the total count, while 43% failed to disclose the deal stage. Other than the Limewire deal, there were no other token sales, and there were no reported M&A deals.
Deal of The Week
Odsy Network, a layer-1 blockchain aiming to create universal wallets for Web3, raised $7.5M at a $250M valuation. The seed round was led by Blockcharge Ventures, with participation from Rubik Ventures, Node Capital, and FalconX, among others. Odsy’s cyber security and cryptography experts are developing the network as a universal control layer to secure assets across all Web3. A new...Reports you may have missed
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WEEKLY RECAP This week’s $113 million in funding was less than half of last week’s $242 million, although the deal count showed a more modest 17% drop to 30 deals. Infrastructure continues to be the most popular investment category. Infrastructure’s $66 million in funding was stapled by Nexus Labs and Nuffle Labs’ $25 million and $13 million respective investment rounds. After tallying a few deals in the previous two weeks,...
WEEKLY RECAP Weekly funding fell by almost 50% to $182 million, while the deal count fell by about a third to 23. The Infrastructure category led both funding and deal count, bolstered by Avail’s $47 million Series A round. CeFi saw $26 million in funding, including XREX’s $18.75 million strategic round with Tether. XREX will use the funding to help facilitate regulatory-compliant cross-border payments using USDT. Gaming had the second...
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