Crypto Capital Report: Feb. 2 to 8, 2025

An overview of crypto fundraising for this week, listed from biggest to lowest amount of funding received:

Funding rounds

• Angel: An angel round is a form of early-stage financing where startups receive capital from angel investors. These investors are often wealthy individuals who provide funds in exchange for equity in the company.
• Pre-seed: The initial step of supporting a new firm occurs so early in the process that it is not typically included in investment rounds. This stage, sometimes known as pre-seed investment, usually occurs when a company’s founders begin operations. The most prevalent pre-seed financiers are founders, close friends, supporters, and family members.
• Seed: Seed funding is the first round of official equity funding. It is usually the first official funding for a new business endeavor or enterprise. Seed investment enables a company to finance its initial steps, such as market research and product development. Seed money helps a company determine what its final products will be and who its target audience is.
• Series A: Series A investment is the first round following the seed stage. The phrase refers to the preferred stock that is sold to investors at this stage. In this round, it’s critical to have a strategy for creating a business model that will provide long-term profits.
• Series B: Companies undergoing a Series B funding round are well-established, and their valuations tend to reflect that. Series B is often led by many of the same characters as the earlier round, including a key anchor investor that helps to draw in other investors.
• Series C: Businesses that raise Series C funding are already quite successful. These companies look for additional funding to help them develop new products, expand into new markets, or even acquire other companies. In Series C rounds, investors inject capital into successful businesses in an effort to receive more than double that amount back. Series C funding focuses on scaling the company, growing as quickly and successfully as possible.
• Series D: Series D funding is the 4th stage of fundraising that a business completes after the seed stage.
• Private: A private equity round is led by a private equity firm or a hedge fund and is a late stage round. It is a less risky investment because the company is more firmly established.
• Strategic: Strategic funding involves raising financial resources with a well-defined purpose that aligns with the company’s long-term goals. Unlike other forms of financing, strategic funding isn’t just about obtaining capital but about acquiring capital that adds strategic value to the business.
• Public Sale: Public Sale is the period when an asset or service is launched in the market and is made available to all customers for purchase. This is usually conducted in token exchange platforms and websites.
• Grants: Blockchain grants are funds provided by blockchain platforms or companies to support the development of blockchain projects. These grants can be used for research, development, and the launch of new products or services.
• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A): Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are the different ways companies are combined. Entire companies or their major business assets are consolidated through financial transactions between two or more companies. A company may purchase and absorb another company outright, merge with it to create a new company, acquire some or all of its major assets, make a tender offer for its stock, or stage a hostile takeover.

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All funding dataset came from Token Terminal and ICO Analytics databases.

Summary

This week, 24 projects received funding with a total amount of $134.69 million, with 5 projects receiving an unknown amount. In comparison, this week’s funding decreased by 45.99% over the previous week’s $249.38 million.

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The DeFi sector (16.7%) had the highest financing frequency this week that received funding, followed by infrastructure and DePIN both at 12.5%.

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The NFT sector received the highest financing in terms of dollars, with a total of $30 million, followed by DeFi ($20.5 million) and infrastructure ($17.5 million).

ETF Flows

BTC ETF

Source: Farside

This week’s total BTC ETF inflows were $613.4 million, while total withdrawals were $387.8 million, resulting in a net inflow of $225.6 million. This is 59.68% less than the $559.5 million net inflow last week.

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ETH ETF

Source: Farside

This week’s total ETH ETF inflows were $427.4 million, while total withdrawals were $7.2 million, resulting in a net inflow of $420.2 million. This is 1027.59% greater than the $45.3 million net outflow last week.

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All BTC and ETH ETF inflow and outflow data came from Farside database.

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