Crypto venture funding has reached $1.2 billion in July even as DeFi investment has fallen to its lowest quarterly level since late 2023.<\/p>\n
\n Summary<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CryptoRank data<\/a> shows that investors completed roughly 25 funding rounds in July as of July 20, keeping capital active despite a sharp decline in the number of announced deals.<\/p>\n Monthly fundraising has moved unevenly throughout 2026. According to CryptoRank, crypto companies raised $1.14 billion in January before the total slipped to $896.3 million in February. Funding then climbed to $2.2 billion in March, supported by roughly 85 deals, the highest monthly count shown in the six-month chart.<\/p>\n April brought the sharpest reversal of the year. CryptoRank recorded $698.2 million for the month, while an earlier crypto.news report<\/a> placed the amount at $659 million across 63 funding rounds. The crypto.news figure represented a 74% decline from March\u2019s roughly $2.6 billion and 84 deals, taking monthly funding back toward levels last seen in 2024.<\/p>\n Differences between the two April totals may result from later database updates or varying methods used to classify deals. CryptoRank\u2019s current chart nevertheless confirms the same direction: both the amount raised and the number of completed rounds fell sharply after March.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Funding rebounded to $3.89 billion in May, the highest monthly total in CryptoRank\u2019s six-month view. Although the number of deals remained below March\u2019s peak, larger transactions pushed the total well above every other month shown in the dataset.<\/p>\n By June, fundraising had cooled to $1.44 billion as the monthly deal count fell to about 60. CryptoRank\u2019s partial July reading of $1.2 billion has come with a further decline to around 25 rounds, suggesting that a smaller pool of transactions is accounting for much of the capital raised.<\/p>\n Coinbase Ventures has remained the most active fund in CryptoRank\u2019s six-month ranking, participating in 33 investments and leading one of them. The data does not provide the value of those transactions, but the deal count places Coinbase Ventures well ahead of other funds tracked during the period.<\/p>\n Animoca Brands ranked second with 19 deals, followed by Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s a16z crypto with 18 and Tether with 17, according to CryptoRank. Becker Ventures, Castrum Capital and Galaxy each participated in 10 transactions, while GSR, YZi Labs, Y Combinator and Circle Ventures completed nine apiece.<\/p>\n\n
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