📊 Crypto Venture Weekly: July 14–18, 2025

$202M raised across 19 projects last week — with capital pouring into stablecoins, crypto banking, DeFi infra, and tokenized finance.

Here’s what the top 10 are building 👇

⚪️KUN ($50M, GSR Ventures, BAI Capital)

Asia-based embedded finance and stablecoin platform. Licensed in Hong Kong and Singapore, offering cross-border payments, card issuing, and on-chain B2B finance tools.

⚪️ Spiko ($22M, Index Ventures, Bpifrance)

Tokenized money market fund platform with €400M AUM. On-chain T-Bill exposure for startups and SMEs, fully compliant and integrated with European custodians.

⚪️ XMTP ($20M, a16z, USV, Coinbase)

Cross-chain messaging protocol powering wallet-to-wallet DMs, notifications, and announcements. Already used by apps like Lens and Farcaster.

⚪️ Blockskye ($15.8M, United Airlines Ventures, Lightspeed)

Building blockchain infra for corporate travel. Used by major airlines and agencies to automate settlement, invoicing, and policy enforcement.

⚪️ Dakota ($12.5M, CoinFund, DCG)

Crypto-native B2B banking layer offering fiat rails, treasury tools, and compliance for Web3 startups and DAOs.

⚪️ AI Cross Matrix ($12M, Avalon Wealth Club)

Privacy-focused protocol enabling cross-chain, untraceable crypto transfers. Uses zk tech to anonymize flows between chains.

⚪️ ƒBTC ($10M, Galaxy Ventures, Mantle)

DeFi platform unlocking Bitcoin for staking, lending, and liquidity provisioning. Aims to create native yield products for BTC holders.

⚪️ W3 ($7M, Framework Ventures, Blockchange)

Decentralized compute protocol powering AI agents. Offchain workflows, verifiable compute, and token incentives for distributed AI infra.

⚪️ Football.Fun ($2M, 6th Man Ventures, Zee Prime)

Onchain football betting and prediction markets. Focused on gamified speculation around global matches.

⚪️ MoneyBadger ($400K, P1 Ventures)

South African QR-based crypto payments app for retail and e-commerce. Live with 60+ merchants in pilot phase.