Q1 2022 venture capital activity in crypto set to outpace 2021 By Cointelegraph

The first quarter of 2022 saw unprecedented growth in terms of venture capital activity in different blockchain sectors. In 2021, venture capitalists poured in over $30 billion into infrastructure, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), centralized finance (CeFi) and Web3. That set the bar pretty high if 2022 was going to beat it. In the first quarter of 2022, capital inflows from venture capitalists were over $14.6 billion, or around 48% of all the capital investment by the last year.

Over 500 individual deals were struck in the first three months of 2022 throughout the five major sectors listed above. Cointelegraph Research studied and analyzed its database of deals, mergers and acquisitions activity, investors, and crypto companies to produce a 12-page report on the major VC activities in the crypto sphere.