Ai’s lead in crypto for the VC dollar has increased in Q1’25, but is this career important?
Crypto venture funding in the US has been clocked at about $ 861 million for the first three months of 2025, but nearly $ 20 billion haul of artificial intelligence, according to pitchbook -provided data, shows how investors continue to rotate to AI.
Data shows that investors have closed 795 US deals in AI from January to March, with blockbuster deals such as $ 15.3 Billion billion Databricks and The $ 2 billion anthropic increase Titles are dominant.
The biggest blockbuster deal of crypto, compared to, is Abu Dhabi’s MGX, with $ 2 billion investment in Binance – The first institutional placement in the crypto exchange. Other note deals include $ 82 million increases from the Mesh payment company infrastructure, the ETF issuer of $ 70 million ETF, and the $ 58 million offers of Digital Asset Bank Sygnum.
Prior to the reporting of pitchbook It is shown that AI startups attract one-third of VC’s global investment in 2024, worth $ 131.5 billion, with about a quarter of new startups an AI company in the entire 4,318 VC deals, compared to $ 4.9 billion crypto over just 706 deals.
Analysis: Is there a dollar venture dollars of AI?
Blockbuster rounds from VCs to AI Space and headline-grabbing antics, Like Openai’s Sam Altman looking for trillionand the AI increase from technological new to household name Thanks for the transformer modelswill be thought of by one person who suddenly has a preference to the investor for one another.
Historically, all data shows that VCs generally favor AI in crypto, with AI and machine studying that attracts the same funds that have expanded significantly, according to Statesmangrowing from $ 670 million in 2011 to $ 36 billion in 2020.
There is only one year in which crypto defeats AI for funding, and includes a caveat: narrower AI categories, such as Research of Abi‘S $ 22.3 billion AI estimate in 2021, Crypto suggests briefly exceeding the AI funding during the bullish crypto cycle before the AI funding reappeared to more than $ 100 billion by 2024.
Keep in mind that all of this ignores crypto-native quirks such as airdrops, which put fresh capital in the hands of users and, in turn, bombs the price of the token, increases the size of the wealth of the projects.
A recent report from Dragonfly It was found that between 2020 and 2024, the 11 largest airdrops were formed by $ 7 billion. It does not close the gap between AI and Crypto, but it shows that there are many ways to get a dollar than the traditional adventure capital.
