{"id":40105,"date":"2021-04-04T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40105"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:36:37","slug":"crypto-firms-raise-more-venture-capital-in-q1-than-in-all-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/crypto-firms-raise-more-venture-capital-in-q1-than-in-all-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto firms raise more venture capital in Q1 than in all of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter of 2021, venture capital funding for crypto companies totalled about $2.6 billion. That exceeds the entire previous year, in which the sector attracted $2.3 billion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-01\/crypto-firms-got-more-funding-last-quarter-than-in-all-of-2020?sref=AACmJ2tc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg <\/a>, citing CB Insights.<\/p>\n<p>The analytics firm tallied 129 deals for the period, versus 341 in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ex9C9I8XAAAlj0R-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u043e\u043c \u043a\u0432\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0435 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043a\u043b\u0438 \u0431\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0435 \u0432\u0435\u043d\u0447\u0443\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043a\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0430, \u0447\u0435\u043c \u0437\u0430 \u0432\u0435\u0441\u044c 2020 \u0433\u043e\u0434\" class=\"wp-image-130307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ex9C9I8XAAAlj0R-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ex9C9I8XAAAlj0R-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ex9C9I8XAAAlj0R-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ex9C9I8XAAAlj0R.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Bloomberg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much of the uptick was driven by several large rounds for blockchain startups, including the crypto-lending platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockfi-raises-350-million-at-a-3-billion-valuation\">BlockFi<\/a>, the NFT-platform developer <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/developers-of-the-nba-top-shot-nft-platform-raise-305-million-from-michael-jordan-and-other-investors\">the Dapper Labs project<\/a> and the exchange <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-com-raises-300-million-at-a-5-2-billion-valuation\">Blockchain.com<\/a>. Collectively, they raised more than $950 million.<\/p>\n<p>Investment inflows were also aided by Bitcoin hitting new highs and by the growing number of corporate buyers of digital gold, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musks-tesla-invested-1-5-billion-in-bitcoin-the-assets-price-rose-to-44800\">Tesla<\/a>, analysts noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Block estimated last year that venture funding in the crypto industry stood at <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/crypto-venture-capital-funding-exceeds-3-billion\">$3.1 billion and 774 deals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog\u2019s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter of 2021, venture capital funding for crypto companies totalled about $2.6 billion. That exceeded the entire previous year, when the industry attracted $2.3 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1133],"class_list":["post-40105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40107,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105\/revisions\/40107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}