Ah, the sweet scent of freshly minted crypto investments! The third week of February was a veritable feast for the eyes, with security and infrastructure projects leading the charge. Let us delve into the juicy details, shall we?
The week’s funding totaled over $150 million, and it seems that security, DeFi, and infrastructure projects were the belle of the ball, as per Crypto Fundraising data.
Blockaid, $50 million
- Raised $50 million in Series B funding
- The project is backed by Ribbit Capital, Google Ventures, and Variant
- Blockaid has raised a total of $83 million so far
Read the full announcement from Blockaid CEO, @idobn
— Blockaid (@blockaid_) February 18, 2025
Kinto, $20 million
- Kinto has secured $20 million in an unknown round
- Backed by Brevan Howard
- Kinto has raised a total of $25 million
We are happy to share that @BHDigitalAssets deployed $20m in assets on Kinto, participating in our mining program.
Read more in the press release:
— Kinto (@KintoXYZ) February 17, 2025
Cygnus, $20 million
- Raised $20 million in pre-seed funding
- Cygnus is backed by Manifold, OKX Ventures, and Mirana
- The project is creating DeFi and stablecoin solutions
Introducing Cygnus – a modular real yield layer and the first Web3 Instagram App Layer – onboarding the next billion users.
Cygnus is thrilled to announce the successful completion of a $20 million pre-seed funding round, backed by industry pioneers such as @ManifoldTrading,…
— Cygnus (@CygnusFi) February 19, 2025
Altius, $11 million
- Altius secured $11 million in pre-seed funding
- The project is backed by Founders Fund, Pantera, and Archetype
Altius @AltiusLabs has secured $11 million in a notable funding round led by Founders Fund and Pantera.
The company is developing a parallel VM-agnostic execution framework designed for modular blockchains. Currently,
You can join their Discord community…
— Halo🥷♣️ (@0xHalo_) February 18, 2025
Universal Protocol, $9 million
- Universal Protocol raised $9 million in an unknown round
- Backed by a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, and Four Cities Capital
Introducing Universal, uAssets, and our $9M round led by @a16zcrypto.
Universal brings the tokens you want to trade (think SUI, XRP, and DOGE) to the chains you already trade on (think Base and Solana) – and uAssets have already seen $850M+ in volume since going live.
If you do…
— Universal (@universaldotxyz) February 19, 2025
Fluent Labs, $8 million
- Fluent Labs secured $8 million in seed funding
- Backed by Polychain Capital, Primitive, and M41 Ventures
- The project is creating L2 infrastructure
Fluent Labs has raised $8M, led by @polychain, to build the first blended execution network.
— Fluent (@fluentxyz) February 19, 2025
Mansa, $7 million
- Mansa raised $7 million in an unknown round
- The project is developing DeFi payment solutions
- Mansa has raised $10 million in February
We are incredibly excited to announce that MANSA has raised $10M, led by @Tether_to and @polymorphiccap , to revolutionize cross-border payments with with stablecoin-based liquidity solutions.
— MANSA (@MANSA_FI) February 20, 2025
Primus Labs, $6.50 million
- Primus Labs raised $6.50 million in seed funding
- Backed by Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, and VanEck
🎉 Primus has successfully raised $6.5M in our Pre-seed + Seed round!
This round was led by @DispersionVC, @symbolicvc and @vaneck_us, and backed by @SamsungNext, @Alchemy, @MaelstromFund, @welaraworld, @theBBFund, @Modular_Capital, @Karatage_, @InitialVentures,…— Primus Labs (prev. PADO) (@primus_labs) February 20, 2025
Notable crypto VC funding rounds < $5 million
- Yield Basis raised $5 million with $50 million FDV for AMM and yield tools
- Acre secured $4 million with $90 million FDV for Bitcoin DeFi
- WalletConnect gathered $4 million through public sale with a $200 million FDV
- Mansa raised $3 million in pre-seed funding
- Maestro secured $3 million in seed funding
- AMMO raised $2.5 million for AI infrastructure
- Infinity Ground, Fomo, and ResearchHub each gathered $2 million
- Nil Foundation and Mu Digital each secured $600,000 through public sales
- Form Network raised $306,500 with $306.5 million FDV
- Forkast secured $100,000 with $0.04 FDV
- RICH raised $50,000 for data privacy solutions
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