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Crypto infrastructure companies: 22 rounds, $1.01B, 1 repeat VC

By NAUT Research · · 8 min read

$1.01B Crypto infrastructure raised across the 16 of 22 rounds that disclosed an amount, 1 July to 29 October 2026. Logos: Alpaca, Securitize, Prime Intellect, Gauntlet, Nous Research, ADI, DATA Network, Cyclops, River Markets, Beldex, 0xPredicate, glacislabs, Walapay, City Protocol, Kravata, Primus Labs.

Crypto infrastructure companies closed 22 funding and exit events from 1 July to 29 October 2026, and the 16 of them that disclosed an amount raised $1,010.9M. NAUT records a named lead on 5 of the 22, Sigma Capital, Generative Ventures, Draper Associates, Robot Ventures and Blockchain Capital, and 28 distinct firms appear across the 7 rounds with any backer named, of which only NVIDIA Venture Capital shows up twice.

Data as of 29 October 2026, from NAUT's funding records, read on 29 October 2026. The scope is every round NAUT tags Infrastructure with an announcement date in the window: 22 rows, covering 16 venture-style rounds, 4 M&A events, 1 debt facility and 1 public listing. Each amount was checked against outside reports, listed under Sources; 13 of the 16 came back confirmed, 2 came back with a different label or date, and 1 found no outside report at all. NAUT Research wrote this report, and no one paid for it.

3 things to carry into the table. Outside reports put the Securitize listing on the New York Stock Exchange on 2 July 2026 as a $400M deal, with the $225M NAUT stores matching the PIPE inside it. Reports on the glacislabs round agree on $6.8M and call it a seed round led by a firm NAUT does not record. No outside report was found for the $0.5M incubation entry NAUT holds for Kravata, whose last widely reported raise was earlier and larger. Take those 3 out and the other 13 amounts stand as stored.

Which crypto infrastructure companies raised, and who led each?

Month Company Round Raised Led by
July Public listing $225M None named
July Series A $130M None named
July Series C $125M None named
July Strategic $50M None named
July M&A Not disclosed None named
July Series A $20M None named
July Extended seed $6.8M None named
July Debt financing $300M None named
July Strategic Not disclosed None named
August Seed $8.5M None named
August Not disclosed $8M
August Incubation $0.5M None named
August Incubation $0.5M None named
August Pre-Series A $4M None named
September No NAUT project page yet M&A Not disclosed None named
October Seed $4.6M
October No NAUT project page yet Strategic Not disclosed
October Series B $90M
October Strategic $30M None named
October M&A Not disclosed None named
October M&A Not disclosed None named
October Series A $8M

Dates are grouped by month because a NAUT project page renders a round's announcement date in its own timezone and can show the next calendar day. 2 rows have no NAUT project page yet, a September M&A event and an October strategic round, so they are counted in the 22 and left unlinked; the October one was led by Draper Associates, joined by Draper Dragon and Trust Machines. The round NAUT files under DATA Network sits on a route that still carries its former slug, and its team is left out of the next section for that reason.

Who runs each company, and who backed it?

How much crypto infrastructure funding did each company raise?

Raised per round, the 16 that disclosed an amount
  1. Alpaca$300M
  2. Securitize$225M
  3. Prime Intellect$130M
  4. Gauntlet$125M
  5. Nous Research$90M
  6. ADI$50M
  7. DATA Network$30M
  8. Cyclops$20M
  9. River Markets$8.5M
  10. Beldex$8M
  11. 0xPredicate$8M
  12. glacislabs$6.8M
  13. Walapay$4.6M
  14. City Protocol$4M
  15. Kravata$0.5M
  16. Primus Labs$0.5M

The 2 largest rows are not venture cheques: Alpaca's $300M is debt and Securitize's $225M sits inside a public listing. Take both out, and the 14 venture-style rounds that disclosed an amount raised $485.9M, with Prime Intellect ($130M), Gauntlet ($125M) and Nous Research ($90M) holding $345M of it. The other 6 rows in the 22 disclosed nothing.

What this tells a BD team selling to crypto infrastructure companies

How a BD team can work this list
  1. Split by cheque size5 companies hold $870M of the $1,010.9M; the other 17 rows share $140.9M.
  2. Go where a founder is named7 of the 8 rounds at $10M or under list a founder or CEO on NAUT, such as Nikhil Raghuveera at 0xPredicate.
  3. Open the deepest founder benchNotabene names 4 co-founders, more than any other company here.
  4. Reach out while the round is newsEach company's NAUT page carries the team and the contact routes.

What this tells a crypto infrastructure founder

How a founder can use this list
  1. Start with the 5 leadsSigma Capital, Generative Ventures, Robot Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Draper Associates each led 1 round in the window.
  2. Match your stageGenerative Ventures led a $4.6M seed, Blockchain Capital an $8M Series A and Robot Ventures a $90M Series B.
  3. Add the repeat backerNVIDIA Venture Capital is the only firm on 2 of the 22 rounds.
  4. Ask a chain or networkSui Foundation, Polygon, Paxos and Trust Machines all wrote strategic cheques here.

How to reach the decision makers

Every company, investor and person above opens its NAUT page, which lists the team, the backers and the people to contact. The 22 people named above each have their own profile route, from Carlos Domingo at Securitize to Xiang Xie at Primus Labs, and the 28 backer firms all have a NAUT page, 26 of them as investors and 2 as projects (Polygon and Sui Foundation). The 8 people NAUT holds only as a single handle, including 3 of Nous Research's co-founders, are left unnamed here until a full name is on the row.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. Every company in this article is in NAUT's developer API as JSON, the same records the pages show. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/securitize returns that company with its team, in the same shape as every other company named here, for 5 credits a call. A key with no credits gets clearly marked sample data, so you can build against it first. Plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits (pricing), and the API docs list every endpoint. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on NAUT unlock on any paid plan: start a 7-day trial.

Crypto infrastructure companies FAQ

How much did crypto infrastructure companies raise from July to October 2026?

$1,010.9M across the 16 of 22 rounds that disclosed an amount, announced between 1 July and 29 October 2026. Taking out Alpaca's $300M debt facility and the $225M inside Securitize's public listing, the 14 venture-style rounds with an amount raised $485.9M.

Who invested in crypto infrastructure startups from July to October 2026?

NAUT records 28 distinct firms across the 7 rounds in the 1 July to 29 October 2026 window that name any backer. The 5 leads are Sigma Capital at Beldex, Generative Ventures at Walapay, Robot Ventures at Nous Research, Blockchain Capital at 0xPredicate and Draper Associates at an October strategic round, and the firms that joined include Union Square Ventures (USV), M12, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, SamsungNext and NVIDIA Venture Capital.

Which crypto infrastructure company raised the most?

Alpaca at $300M, which Finance Magnates reports as debt inside a $435M package, and Securitize at $225M inside a $400M public listing on 2 July 2026. The largest venture round in the 1 July to 29 October 2026 window was Prime Intellect's $130M Series A.

Which crypto infrastructure investors backed more than 1 round?

NVIDIA Venture Capital alone, on Prime Intellect's $130M Series A and Nous Research's $90M Series B, both announced in the 1 July to 29 October 2026 window. The other 27 firms NAUT records on these rounds appear once each.

How many crypto infrastructure companies were acquired in that window?

4 of the 22 rows are M&A events: Imperator.co in July, Bluvo and ZealWallet in October, and 1 September row with no NAUT project page yet. None disclosed an amount.

Can I get this data through an API?

Yes. NAUT's developer API at api.naut.so/v1 returns the data behind this article as JSON: GET /v1/projects/securitize returns that company with its team, in the same shape as every other company named here. A call costs 5 credits, and a key with no credits returns marked sample data for free.

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