Technology
By Steven Anderson
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Month-by-Month, the Numbers Got Ugly. The monthly breakdown is worth sitting with. September 2025 came in at 436 unique investors.
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Galaxy Research Puts Q1 2026 Funding at $4 Billion. Galaxy Research tracked $4 billion invested across 355 deals in Q1 2026.
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AI, ETFs, and Macro Are All Pulling Capital Away. Venture firms aren't just competing with each other.
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Participation is collapsing. Only 651 unique investors showed up to crypto funding rounds in the second quarter of 2026, per CryptoRank data — a number that puts the sector…
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For context: back in 2022, that figure stood at 2,564. So we're talking about a drop of roughly three-quarters from peak.
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The monthly breakdown is worth sitting with. September 2025 came in at 436 unique investors. October nudged up slightly to 451 — then November cratered to 316.
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No single month since late 2025 has shown anything resembling a sustained rebound. The bounces come, and then they give it all back.
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Galaxy Research tracked $4 billion invested across 355 deals in Q1 2026. That sounds like real money — and it is — but the comparison to the prior quarter is brutal.
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The big driver of that Q1 drop, per Galaxy, was the absence of large late-stage financings. Those deals had propped up the numbers in late 2025.
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See also: XRP Falls to $1.01, Suffering a 43% Drop Since January
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It's a weird split. The top of the market dried up. The bottom stayed reasonably active. The middle is murky.
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Venture firms aren't just competing with each other. They're competing with artificial intelligence investment, which has absorbed enormous amounts of institutional attention and…
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That's a harder pitch to make. Why take illiquid venture risk when you can buy a crypto ETF and stay liquid?
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The concentration trend is probably the most structurally significant piece of all this. Fewer investors are active, but a smaller group of specialized players seems to be…
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