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Crypto funding September 2026: 64 deals, $1.37B, 1 took 29%

By NAUT Research · · 8 min read

$1.37B Crypto funding across the 38 of 64 September 2026 deals that disclosed an amount. Logos: Tazapay, Felix Pago, Jeeves, Payward, North Capital, Kaiko, World, USD.AI, HIFI.

Crypto funding September 2026 on NAUT's record: 64 crypto funding deals announced between 1 September and 30 September 2026, and the 38 of them that carry a disclosed amount total $1,371.5M. The single largest, the $400M acquisition of Tazapay announced on 8 September, accounts for 29% of that money on its own, and NAUT's record names at least 1 investor on 36 of the 64 deals.

Data as of 11 November 2026, from NAUT's Investment records. Scope: every investment row NAUT holds with an announcement date in September 2026 where the company is not archived, which is 68 rows, then a crypto-scope gate drops 4 companies with no crypto signal on their own site (Mistral AI, frontier AI; Basecamp Research, a biodiversity database; GMI Cloud, GPU cloud; Entravel, hotel booking). Those 4 hold 3 of the 41 disclosed amounts in the raw window and $3,943M between them, so dropping them takes the month from $5,314.5M to $1,371.5M across 64 deals. Round labels, amounts and sector tags are NAUT's stored values. research.json for this report holds 10 claims, 1 per deal, each an amount and an announcement date put to outside reports: 9 came back confirmed and 1 contradicted. The other 54 of the 64 deals were never put through that check. NAUT Research wrote this report, and no one paid for it.

Which crypto funding September 2026 deals were the largest?

The 9 deals below are the September rows whose amount and date a source check confirmed, ranked by amount. Every name in the last column is an investor NAUT's own record puts on that round, with "(lead)" where NAUT marks it as the lead.

Date Company Round Amount Investors
8 Sep M&A $400M
1 Sep Debt Financing $113M , ,
29 Sep Series C $110M (lead), , , , , , plus 5 more
10 Sep Strategic $100M No investor on NAUT's row
23 Sep M&A $60M
14 Sep Extended Series B $57M (lead), , , plus 6 more
28 Sep Otc Purchase $49M No investor on NAUT's row
15 Sep Debt Financing $40M No investor on NAUT's row; K3 Capital named by the cited report
24 Sep Series A $37M (lead), , ,

2 of the 9 are acquisitions, so the money went to the sellers' owners: Circle bought Tazapay in a deal the Yahoo Finance report puts at $400M, and MoonPay's purchase of North Capital is described by Cointelegraph as worth more than $60M. 2 more are debt, not equity: the $113M on Felix Pago is a $113M credit facility from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund and the $40M on USD.AI is a stablecoin-based revolving facility from K3 Capital. NAUT's record also holds a $100M raise for Circle dated 22 September under the round label Pipe; the source check on that label came back contradicted, so the row stays out of the table and out of the lead counts.

Where did crypto funding September 2026 money go by stage?

Ranked by the disclosed amount on NAUT's stored round label. "Deals" counts every row with that label; "Funded" counts the rows that carry a figure.

Round label Deals Funded Disclosed
M&A 11 2 $460M
Debt Financing 3 3 $183M
Strategic 11 6 $163.5M
Series C 1 1 $110M
Pipe 1 1 $100M
Seed 11 10 $89.25M
Series A 3 3 $82M
Extended Series B 1 1 $57M
Otc Purchase 1 1 $49M
Extended Series A 3 3 $35M
Post-ipo 1 1 $25M
Extended Seed 1 1 $11.5M
Pre Seed 4 4 $5.25M
Angel 2 1 $1M

3 further labels carry no disclosed amount at all: Incubation (6 deals), Undisclosed (3) and Extended Series C (1). Those 10 plus the 14 rows above account for all 64 deals. The headline reading for anyone selling into this month: M&A is the biggest label by count and by money, and 9 of its 11 deals disclosed nothing, so a count of M&A rows says more about September than the $460M does.

Crypto funding September 2026 by sector tag

NAUT tags a company with 1 or more sectors. This table groups each deal by the first tag on its company record, so a deal is counted once.

Sector tag Deals Disclosed total
No sector tag 47 $768.3M
Payment 2 $415M
data 1 $57M
Stablecoins 2 $50M
AI 3 $49M
Custody 1 $25M
DeFi 3 $3M
consumer 1 $2.5M
Prediction Market 2 $1.7M
Intelligence 1 None disclosed
Infrastructure 1 None disclosed

47 of the 64 companies carry no sector tag on NAUT's record, which is why sector is the weakest cut of this month and the round label is the strongest. Treat the tag as a filter to start from, then read the company's own page.

How much did each of the 9 confirmed deals raise?

September 2026 deals with a confirmed outside report, amount in $M
  1. Tazapay$400M
  2. Felix Pago$113M
  3. Jeeves$110M
  4. Payward$100M
  5. North Capital$60M
  6. Kaiko$57M
  7. World$49M
  8. USD.AI$40M
  9. HIFI$37M

These 9 deals hold $966M of the month's $1,371.5M, so the other 29 deals with a disclosed amount split $405.5M between them.

Which crypto investors appear on the most September deals?

Ranked by the number of the 64 deals NAUT's record puts each investor on. The lead column counts the rounds where NAUT marks that investor as lead.

Investor Deals Leads
6 0
3 3
3 2
2 1
2 1
2 0
2 0
2 0
2 0
2 0
2 0

Those 11 are every investor NAUT's record puts on 2 or more of the 64 deals. Blockchain Capital is the busiest lead on the record with 3, ahead of Maven 11 Capital with 2; the other 17 investors marked lead are marked once each, 15 firms and 2 individuals, among them CoinFund, S&P Global, Oak HC/FT, Left Lane Capital, Variant, Faction, CMT Digital and Foundation Capital. NAUT marks a lead on 16 of the 64 deals, with 22 lead marks across 19 distinct investors, and names at least 1 investor on 36 deals, so 28 deals carry no investor on NAUT's record. That is NAUT's record for those rows, and it is not evidence that no investor was named anywhere.

What this tells a BD team

  • The 36 deals with a named investor are the warm path: 1 shared backer gets you a reason to write, and Coinbase Ventures alone sits on 6 of the month's deals.
  • Debt and M&A move the totals more than venture rounds here, with $460M in M&A and $183M in debt against $82M in Series A, and 8 of the 38 funded deals carry a label of M&A, Debt Financing, Pipe, Otc Purchase or Post-ipo rather than a venture equity round.
  • Budget follows the label: the 11 Seed deals disclosed $89.25M across 10 of them, which puts the average new-money account in the single-digit millions.
  • The 28 deals with no investor on NAUT's record are the least contested outreach in the set, because a seller working from investor relationships will not see them.
How a BD team can work the September 2026 list
  1. Start with the 9 confirmed dealsAmounts run $400M on Tazapay down to $37M on HIFI, all source-checked.
  2. Pick the shared backerCoinbase Ventures is on 6 deals, Blockchain Capital and Maven 11 Capital on 3 each.
  3. Open the company pageEach company's NAUT page lists its team and which channels NAUT holds.
  4. Keep the 28 quiet dealsThey carry no investor on NAUT's record, so nobody is working them through a fund.

What this tells a founder raising

  • 38 of 64 deals disclosed a figure, so expect roughly 6 of every 10 comparable deals to publish an amount you can benchmark against.
  • The money clustered in later and structured deals: $460M of the $1,371.5M sat in 2 disclosed acquisitions and $183M in 3 debt facilities.
  • Early stage is where the volume is: 11 Seed, 4 Pre Seed and 1 Extended Seed, 16 deals in total, against 7 rounds labelled Series A, Extended Series A or Series C.
  • 11 firms appear on 2 or more September deals, and that is the shortlist worth a warm introduction before a cold one.
How a founder can use this month
  1. Benchmark the labelSeed disclosed $89.25M across 10 deals, Pre Seed $5.25M across 4.
  2. Shortlist the repeat names11 investors sit on 2 or more of the 64 deals, Coinbase Ventures on 6.
  3. Check who actually leadsNAUT marks a lead on 16 of 64 deals, with 22 lead marks across 19 investors.
  4. Read the fund page firstEach NAUT investor page lists the fund's team and its round history.

How to reach the decision makers

Every company and investor named here has a NAUT page, and each page lists the people NAUT holds for it with their role and the channels on file. A person page says which channels NAUT has ("On file at NAUT: Telegram, email"), and the directory search and public profiles are open on the free plan.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto funding October 2026: 60 rounds, $1.78B, Strive took 47% and Crypto VC funding Q3 2026: NAUT 142 rounds, Galaxy 296 deals.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. The fund side of this report comes back from a single call: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/coinbase-ventures returns that fund with its team and its portfolio, where each row carries the company, roundType, amountUsd, announceDate and isLead, which are the same fields the tables above are built from. For a company in the list use GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/jeeves, which returns 1 company with its team. Calls are 5 credits each, documented at https://naut.so/docs/api with plans at https://naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial if you want the contact channels as well as the rounds.

Crypto funding September 2026 FAQ

How much did crypto startups raise in September 2026?

NAUT tracks 64 crypto deals announced in September 2026, and the 38 that carry a disclosed amount total $1,371.5M. The other 26 deals disclosed no figure.

What was the largest crypto funding round of September 2026?

The largest single deal on NAUT's record for September 2026 is the $400M acquisition of Tazapay by Circle, announced on 8 September 2026, which is 29% of the month's disclosed $1,371.5M.

Which crypto investors were most active in September 2026?

Coinbase Ventures appears on 6 of the 64 September 2026 deals on NAUT's record, more than any other firm, and Blockchain Capital and Maven 11 Capital appear on 3 each. Blockchain Capital is marked lead on all 3 of its rounds, the most leads of any firm in the month.

How many September 2026 crypto funding rounds were source-checked?

10 of the 64 deals had their amount and announcement date put to outside reports for this report: 9 came back confirmed and 1, the Pipe label on the Circle row, came back contradicted. 7 of the 9 confirmed claims had the quoted line found on the source page, and the 2 others (Tazapay and Payward) rest on a page the fetch could not read plus a second report.

Where can I find these crypto startups, their investors and their contact channels?

On NAUT. Each of the 64 September 2026 deals sits on a company page with the company's team, and each named investor has a fund page with its team and round history, or you can pull the same fields with GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/coinbase-ventures. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to open the channels.

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