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Crypto funding 2024: 426 rounds, $3.14B and who backed them

By NAUT Research · · 7 min read

$3.14B Crypto funding 2024 disclosed by 421 of the 426 crypto venture rounds NAUT dates in 2024. Logos: Monad, Berachain, Celestia, Zama, Babylon, Succinct, Eclipse, IoTeX, Morpho, EigenCloud.

Crypto funding 2024, in NAUT's numbers: NAUT tracks 426 crypto venture rounds announced between 1 January and 31 December 2024, and the 421 that disclosed an amount raised $3.14B, at a median of $3M. The largest was Monad's $225M round in April 2024, led by Paradigm, and Animoca Brands sits in more of the 426 rounds than any other backer on NAUT's record, 34.

Data as of 14 November 2026, read from NAUT's funding records. NAUT dates 1,511 rounds to 2024. 521 are not token sales (IDO, ICO, IEO, pre-sales, node sales, OTC sales and similar), and 469 of those are venture-type rounds: seed, private, strategic, series and funding rounds. 43 of those 469, holding $13.42B on NAUT's record, are at AI-only or other non-crypto companies, so they are out too, and 426 crypto rounds remain. The scope comes from each company's sector tags and description, so treat it as NAUT's filter. The 10 largest rows were put to outside reports for this article, and the result for each is in the table below. NAUT holds Animoca Brands under 2 rows, its main row (32 of these rounds) and Animoca Brands (Ventures) (14); together they cover 34 rounds at 32 companies, each counted once.

Crypto funding 2024 by quarter: how much was raised?

Most of 2024's crypto funding on NAUT's record landed in the first half: 320 rounds and $2.15B in January to June, against 106 rounds and $996.7M in July to December. In the table, Sized counts rounds with an amount on record and Total is what those rounds disclosed.

Quarter Rounds Sized Total Median
Q1 2024 164 163 $1.09B $2M
Q2 2024 156 153 $1.06B $2.4M
Q3 2024 58 58 $674.4M $5.5M
Q4 2024 48 47 $322.4M $5M
2024 426 421 $3.14B $3M
  • April was the biggest month, with 65 rounds and $623M disclosed, followed by March at 77 rounds and $607.1M.
  • The median round more than doubled after June, from $2M in Q1 to $5.5M in Q3. 133 of the 426 rows carry the label Private and hold just $20.2M between them, an average of about $152,000, so small private allocations pull the count up and the median down.
  • The biggest round types by money were Funding Round (76 rounds, $1.12B), Series A (37, $685.6M), Seed Round (68, $448.7M) and Strategic Round (33, $284.9M).

Which crypto funding 2024 rounds were largest, and who led them?

Ranked by amount on NAUT's record, the 12 largest crypto rounds of 2024 run from Monad's $225M down to 3 rounds of $50M. NAUT's records carry no lead flag on any of them, so the lead column names the firm the cited report names, where one was checked. Every row with a named lead matched a closed round in amount and month. The month of each 2024 round is in brackets.

Company Raised Lead per report
(Apr) $225M
(Apr) $100M and
(Sep) $100M
(Feb) $100M None: raiser disputed
(Aug) $80M None: no report found
(Mar) $73M Round matched, lead not checked
(May) $70M
(Mar) $69M None: raise in progress
(Mar) $55M
(Mar) $50M and
(Apr) $50M Not checked
(Aug) $50M Not checked
  • 7 of the 10 checked rows matched a closed round in amount and month.
  • 3 need care. Berachain's $69M row matches a March 2024 press report that the company was raising over $69M, which may overlap its $100M Series B of April 2024. The EigenCloud row's raiser was contradicted by the report research found, and no report was found for the DATA Network row, whose NAUT description is of Story Protocol. All 3 still sit inside the $3.14B, which is NAUT's record.
  • Cited reports name as lead on 3 of the 12: Monad, Babylon and Succinct.
  • 4 of the 6 rounds with a named lead carry that lead among their NAUT backer records (Monad, Berachain, Celestia, Succinct). For Babylon and Eclipse, the lead the report names is not in NAUT's backer list for that round.

Who backed the most crypto funding rounds in 2024?

Crypto venture rounds of 2024 each firm backed, on NAUT's record
  1. Animoca Brands34
  2. OKX Ventures28
  3. Cogitent Ventures21
  4. MH Ventures21
  5. Big Brain Holdings21
  6. HashKey Group20
  7. Amber Group19
  8. SevenX Ventures17
  9. Morningstar Ventures17
  10. Foresight Ventures17

These are the 10 crypto investors of 2024 with the most backer records among the 426 rounds, ranked by round count; Animoca Brands's 34 joins its 2 NAUT rows. None of the 10 holds a lead flag on NAUT's record for these rounds, so the chart counts participation only. HashKey Group, Amber Group, SevenX Ventures, Morningstar Ventures and Foresight Ventures complete the 10, at 17 to 20 rounds each.

What this tells a BD team

  • The 2024 raisers are 2 years into their runway. Teams that closed in the busy first half of 2024 may be raising again, hiring or buying services in late 2026.
  • The largest rounds went to chains and infrastructure. Monad, Berachain, Celestia, Babylon, Succinct and Eclipse build L1s, L2s, data layers, Bitcoin staking or zero-knowledge proofs, per their NAUT descriptions.
  • A backer list is a warm path. Monad's round alone carries 39 backer records on NAUT, each a fund you can open and check for an intro.
How a BD team can work the 2024 list
  1. Pick the cohortStart with the 320 rounds of January to June 2024, the teams furthest into their runway.
  2. Sort by sizeThe 12 largest rounds run from $225M at Monad to $50M at Morpho.
  3. Find the teamEach company's NAUT page lists its people, from Celestia to Zama.
  4. Use the backersAsk a shared investor such as OKX Ventures, in 28 of the rounds, for the intro.

What this tells a founder raising in 2026

How a founder can use the 2024 backers
  1. Shortlist active firmsStart with the 10 firms in the chart, 17 to 34 rounds each in 2024.
  2. Find a leadParadigm led 3 of the 12 largest rounds per the cited reports.
  3. Read the portfolioEach fund's NAUT page lists its rounds with amount and date.
  4. Reach the partnerOpen the fund's team on NAUT and contact them from there.

How to reach the decision makers

Every company and fund named here links to its NAUT page, which lists the team and which channels NAUT has on file for each person. For a 2024 round, start at the company page, then open the funds in its backer list: a firm that sat in the same round may know the founders directly.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto funding statistics 2026: 327 rounds, $11.45B, 30 numbers and a16z vs Paradigm: 26 rounds to 17, medians $10M and $52.5M.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/paradigm returns 1 fund with its team and its portfolio rows, each carrying company, roundType, amountUsd, announceDate and isLead, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/monad returns 1 company with its team, both with Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY at 5 credits a call (docs, pricing). Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on those pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial.

Crypto funding 2024 FAQ

How much did crypto raise in 2024?

NAUT tracks 426 crypto venture rounds announced in 2024, and the 421 that disclosed an amount raised $3.14B, at a median of $3M. Token sales and 43 non-crypto rounds are left out of that figure.

What was the biggest crypto funding round of 2024?

Monad's $225M round of April 2024, led by Paradigm, is the largest of the 426 crypto venture rounds NAUT dates to 2024. Berachain's $100M Series B and Celestia's $100M round follow it.

Which crypto investors backed the most rounds in 2024?

On NAUT's record, Animoca Brands backed 34 of the 426 crypto venture rounds of 2024, OKX Ventures 28, and Cogitent Ventures, MH Ventures and Big Brain Holdings 21 each.

Where can I find the teams behind 2024's crypto funding rounds and their contact channels?

On NAUT: each company named here links to a NAUT page that lists its team, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/monad returns 1 company with its team through the NAUT API. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial.

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