Best Month of Funding in a Year
Weekly Recap
Despite a short week in observance of Good Friday, weekly funding rose 17% from $228 million to $268 million across 31 deals. March funding totaled $960 million (with three days remaining), representing the highest figures since March ’23. Monthly deal count has reached 142 thus far, similarly marking the highest tally since 2022. Gaming companies had a strong week of funding, raising $114 million, being slightly edged out by Infrastructure which garnered $121 million. Seed rounds continue to be the most popular deal stage, comprising 24% of weekly funding and 32% of the deal count.
Although not included in the numbers below, there was a notable merger announcement this week between Fetch.AI ($FET), SingularityNET ($AGIX), and Ocean Protocol ($OCEAN). Mergers are not commonplace across crypto protocols, but the three have agreed in principle to merge into an “Artificial Superintelligence Alliance,” creating one token (ASI) encompassing all three protocols. ASI will launch with an FDV of $7.5 billion, as of prices at the time the announcement. Fetch.ai is an open platform for the new AI economy, SingularityNET is focused on decentralized AI, and Ocean is a decentralized data marketplace. Combining all three should realize multiple synergies across the thr...Reports you may have missed
WEEKLY RECAP As expected, funding totals during the holidays were comparatively low. Both total funding and deal count fell by approximately 70%. There were 11 deals this week totaling $45 million in funding. All disclosed funding amounts fell into the Infrastructure and DeFi categories, while Web3 tallied two deals for undisclosed amounts. Infrastructure-led deal counts among categories (7), and there were no CeFi or Gaming deals to end the year....
WEEKLY RECAP Crypto funding saw a large jump week-over-week, increasing 83% from $231 million to $424 million, and total deal count rose by 21% from 28 to 34. The large funding total was helped by a $250 million token sale completed by Avalanche ahead of its Avalanche9000 upgrade. Infrastructure dominated amongst categories, totaling $354 million across 21 deals, making up 84% of funding and 62% of total deal count. The...
WEEKLY RECAP Crypto funding rose 60% week-over-week from $145 million to $232 million, while total deal count decreased 7% from 29 to 27. CeFi was the leading funding category, totaling $145 million across three deals and comprising 63% of all funding. The total was bolstered by Public’s $130 Series D round, representing only the second Series D round in 2024. Although CeFi has been a laggard category all year, three...
WEEKLY RECAP Despite liquid crypto prices rising, private market funding remains lackluster thus far in Q4. Aggregate funding fell 29% week-over-week, decreasing from $155 million to $109 million, while deal count fell by over 31% from 22 to 15. Infrastructure was the leading category from both a financing and deal count perspective and included our Deal of the Week, Noble. The largest deal was Monkey Tilt, which raised $30 million...
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