Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Startups in the Web3 space received $7,169,997,888 in funding in 2022, according to Metaverse Post's year-end report. The report divides startups into categories such as gaming, metaverse, social networking, infrastructure, AR&VR, and AI. Gaming, metaverse and social networking were the top three investment categories, receiving $4.49 billion (62.5% of total Web3 investments), $1.82 billion (25.4%) and $259.1 million (3.6%), respectively. The infrastructure, AR&VR and AI categories were $208 million, $178.6 million and $136.5 million, respectively.