{"id":121775,"date":"2025-08-31T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121775\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:25:04","slug":"web3-funding-hit-9-6b-in-q2-despite-fewer-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/121775\/","title":{"rendered":"Web3 Funding Hit $9.6B in Q2 Despite Fewer Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web3 startups raised $9.6 billion in venture funding during the second quarter of 2025, making it the second-largest quarter on record, even as the number of deals fell to multi-year lows, <a href=\"https:\/\/outlierventures.io\/article\/web3-fundraising-trends-in-2q25-strategic-selective\/?utm_campaign=12937472-Market%20Insights%20and%20Deal%20Flow%20%7C%20Outlier%20Ventures&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9GYgssBk3RTLYAm3ZudcfVX98NMKkTNbHKsm6w2vrjoSWZI3yJvc-XQkrpe-SUIjZmVCZnvJM7r0YZI8a4ZeowkDUvtg&amp;_hsmi=378014537&amp;utm_content=378014537&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a new report by Outlier Ventures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research by the London-based venture capital firm could present a maturing market in which investors are putting more money into fewer projects. <\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest that Web3 fundraising is evolving from hype-driven activity toward targeted, durability-focused investment, with investors favoring foundational infrastructure and proven teams over volume.<\/p>\n<p>Only 306 deals were disclosed in the quarter, the lowest since mid-2023, but the median deal size rose across every stage. Outlier said this reflects a shift from broad, speculative investing to strategic, high-conviction allocations.<\/p>\n<p>Series A funding, which had slowed sharply during the bear market, staged a comeback. The median Series A round grew to $17.6 million, with 27 deals totaling $420 million, the largest since 2022. Seed funding also picked up, with a median size of $6.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Token fundraising painted a split picture. Private token sales raised $410 million across just 15 deals\u2014their strongest showing since 2021, while public token sales slumped 83% to $134 million, underscoring waning appetite for retail-focused offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Sectors such as cryptocurrency infrastructure, mining and validation, and compute networks saw the largest rounds, with medians ranging between $70 million and $112 million. Consumer-facing sectors, such as marketplaces, trailed significantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapital is consolidating around the projects that can provide the rails for the next phase of adoption,\u201d Outlier wrote, adding that infrastructure-first bets are viewed as \u201cindispensable\u201d to Web3\u2019s long-term growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Web3 startups raised $9.6 billion in venture funding during the second quarter of 2025, making it the second-largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158,38743,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-121775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-funding-round","11":"tag-venture-capital"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}