Key Month-on-Month Metrics
Total funding rose to $3,246.4M in September from $1,905.7M in August, a $1,340.6M month-over-month increase, against $659.3M in September 2024. The number of rounds moved to 77 from 73, and median round size to $7.0M from $6.8M. Unique investors rose to 274 from 257.
By sector, DeFi led with 15 (-2.4 against its 12-month baseline), Infrastructure 7 (-1.3), Payments 6 (+2.1).
By sector, DeFi led with 15 (-2.4 against its 12-month baseline), Infrastructure 7 (-1.3), Payments 6 (+2.1).
| Aug 25 | Sep 25 | MoM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| # of rounds | 73 | 77 | ▲5.5% |
| Med. Round size (MM) | 6.8 | 7.0 | ▲3.7% |
| Unique investors | 257 | 274 | ▲6.6% |
| Round Med. # investors | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0.0% |
Largest investments
Figure announced a round of 787,500,000 on 11 Sep 2025. Figure is a blockchain technology startup that offers loan origination, equity management, and payments services using the Provenance Blockchain
Kraken announced a round of 500,000,000 on 25 Sep 2025. Kraken makes it easy to get started. Sign up today to buy and sell 200+ cryptocurrencies
Rapyd announced a round of 500,000,000 on 10 Sep 2025. Investors: BlackRock, Target Global, General Catalyst, Fidelity Investments, Altimeter Capital, XBO Ventures, Whale Rock Capital Management, Dragoneer, Lattitude Capital, Durable Capital Partners, Spark Capital. Rapyd is a global fintech-as-a-service platform that provides APIs for payments, banking, and financial services integration.
Gemini announced a round of 425,000,000 on 12 Sep 2025. Gemini builds crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we want to help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Flying Tulip announced a round of 200,000,000 on 29 Sep 2025. Investors: Brevan Howard, DWF Labs, CoinFund, Hypersphere Ventures, Lemniscap, Selini Capital, Nascent, Tioga Capital, FalconX, Sigil Fund, Virtuals Protocol, Republic Digital. Flying Tulip, the new crypto project founded by DeFi veteran Andre Cronje, to build an onchain exchange that spans "all of DeFi" - including spot, derivatives, lending, stablecoins, and insurance under one system
Credits and Disclaimers
Data Source: The data presented in this report is sourced from DefiLlama's funding rounds database. We acknowledge and appreciate their work in providing valuable insights into the web3 funding landscape. Issues up to and including March 2026 were compiled from Token Terminal and Crunchbase; the whole series has since been restated on a single source so that figures are comparable across months.
Methodology: The rounds included are those DefiLlama records as web3 fundraising, categorised by its own sector taxonomy. Each round is counted once, in the month it was announced. Where a round names several investors, each is counted once per round for the purposes of the investor ranking, and a round may appear under only one sector.
A note on valuation: earlier issues reported a median round valuation. Fewer than one round in ten discloses a valuation, so that median rested on a handful of observations each month and moved on sampling noise rather than on the market. It has been withdrawn rather than reported with a precision the data cannot carry. Median round size, which is disclosed for almost every round, is reported in its place.
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