sequalacapital

After a period of stagnation, venture capital (VC) funding is returning to the crypto market. In just January 2025, #SequalaCapital , Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and many other large funds have invested a total of 1.2 billion USD into 79 blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, a 63% increase compared to the same period last year.
The New Wave of Investment Pouring into Crypto
According to data from #DefiLiama , experts predict that total investment in the crypto market in 2025 could reach 18 billion USD, nearly double the annual average of 2023 and 2024.

Kishore Jalleda, former senior director at Microsoft and now founder of SeedNeuron, wrote a joke about Bay Area VCs as shown in the picture.
The current stereotype of 'Bay Area VCs' (excluding carry / AUM):
Sequoia: Just promoted another 28-year-old to partner.
“We turned down OpenAI in the seed round back then, but later led the Series B, so strictly speaking, we were also quite early.”

a16z: This quarter recorded 47 episodes of the podcast and only wrote 1 check.
“We are a media company.” Every sentence must mention Web3.

Benchmark: The official website hasn't been updated since 2008, but every order can still be allocated.