Coinbase Ventures Emerges as Leading Crypto VC in H1 2026

Coinbase Ventures, the company enterprise capital (VC) arm of cryptocurrency change Coinbase, led the ranks of crypto-focused VC’s with 30 offers in the primary half of 2026.

Runner-up Animoca Manufacturers accomplished 19 investments, whereas Silicon Valley VC a16z logged 18 offers and stablecoin big Tether accomplished 15, according to knowledge aggregator CryptoRank. 

Prior to now 12 months Coinbase Ventures accomplished a peer-best 75 offers, adopted by Animoca Manufacturers with 40, YZi Labs (beforehand Binance Labs) with 39, GSR with 31 and a16z with 30.

These VC offers defy a bear market that noticed the overall quantity raised by cryptocurrency firms fall to $1.4 billion in June, down 63% from $3.8 billion in April. 

Deal counts additionally fell in June, to 61 fundraising rounds, down from 89 rounds in Might. Nonetheless, final month confirmed a slight restoration in comparison with April, when crypto VC funding hit a two-year low of $698 million throughout 71 whole fundraising rounds.

Up to now in July, crypto corporations raised $456 million throughout 12 funding rounds.

Prime energetic traders and prime classes by funding offers. Supply: CryptoRank

Trying on the offers of the previous six months, Coinbase Ventures participated in seven funding rounds tied to fee protocols, 4 rounds for DeFi initiatives and three rounds for infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization initiatives, respectively. 

Nevertheless, the variety of distinctive traders shrunk to 242 in June, from 452 distinctive traders in October 2025.

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DeFi, funds, AI stay main VC classes

Decentralized finance (DeFi), funds and AI attracted the lion’s share of crypto VC funding through the previous 12 months.

DeFi protocols noticed 216 fundraising rounds in the interval, whereas funds startups logged 131 rounds and AI-crypto firms raised 128 rounds, based on CryptoRank.

Crypto VC capital, invested by class, one-year chart. Supply: CryptoRank

Infrastructure suppliers raised 110 funding rounds, whereas all different sectors noticed fewer than 100 funding rounds over the previous 12 months.

By way of geographical distribution, US-based VCs accounted for $5.8 billion and Australia-based VCs contributed $3.6 billion of funds over the previous six months. Greater than $11.6 billion was invested from undisclosed places.

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