From July 19 to July 26, 2025, twenty innovative projects raised a total of over $623.8 million in investments, while four other companies kept their funding amounts undisclosed.
This is reported by Finway
Leaders of the week by investment volume
The biggest beneficiary of the week was the fintech group Mercury Fintech, which secured $200 million through a deal with Solana Ventures. The funds will be used to develop digital asset management strategies on the Solana blockchain, focusing on staking, validator operations, DeFi protocols, and investments in tokenized assets.
In second place was Satsuma from London, operating in the field of artificial intelligence. The project raised $135 million to create a Bitcoin treasury, exceeding its planned funding target. The rounds were coordinated by Fortified (global investors) and Dawson James Securities (USA), and a third strategic round for American investors is currently ongoing.
The third largest funding went to the biotech project MEI Pharma, which raised $100 million through a private placement of shares and warrants. The funds will be directed towards building a reserve of Litecoin.
Among other notable deals:
- Courtyard — $30 million for the development of an NFT marketplace for physical collectible items.
- Bitzero — $25 million to scale mining capabilities and purchase Bitmain S21 Pro equipment.
- xTAO — $22.8 million for the development of the decentralized data marketplace Bittensor.
- Soluna — $20 million to expand eco-friendly data centers in Texas (Kati project).
- Delabs Games — $17.2 million for the Korean Web3 game developer.
- Poseidon — $15 million for a platform for collecting, processing, and licensing data for physical AI.
- Capital B — $12.05 million to continue its Bitcoin accumulation strategy, including the purchase of approximately 120 BTC.
- DSRV Labs — $11.6 million for a South Korean blockchain infrastructure company that is among the top 10 staking providers in the world.
Projects Gaia ($10 million), Questflow ($6.5 million), Freename ($6.5 million), Data Guardians Network ($5 million), Quack AI ($3.6 million), Bloom ($1.6 million), Omo ($1.1 million), Plenome ($753 thousand), and Onocoy, which raised $139 thousand in a token sale, also received funding.
Investment trends of the week
Investor attention was focused on blockchain infrastructure, artificial intelligence, Web3 solutions, GameFi, DeFi, CeFi, NFTs, and related areas. In addition to the mentioned companies, several startups did not disclose the exact amount of funds raised, including the decentralized derivatives exchange WaveX, the agent platform Bankr, the developer Thunderbolt — Nubit, and the startup StablR, which was invested in by the Kraken exchange.
“The largest investments this week went to projects developing blockchain services and infrastructure. Companies from the GameFi, DeFi, CeFi, NFT segments, and other areas also secured funding.”
In comparison, during the previous week (July 12-19), 14 projects raised nearly $671 million in investments.
