AI and Blockchain Intersect

Weekly Recap

Funding jumped $71 million from last week’s lackluster $30 million to total $101 million for the week. The deal count increased to 17, with 13 deals focused on seed-stage companies. Infrastructure remains the most popular category, although investors seem to be honing in on blockchain applications outside digital assets. The second largest deal of the week, Ingonyama, raised $20 million to develop next-generation semiconductors that leverage cryptography. Ritual, our deal of the week, raised a leading $25 million to design a decentralized AI compute network, aiming to compet...