🚨 Crypto VC Deals Hit a Low in May… But the Game’s Not Over
May 2025 saw the lowest number of Web3 VC deals since Jan 2021.
VC cash flow? Down. Hype? ❌ Gone. Panic? Not here.
Because here’s the twist
🧠 Over $9B has already been invested in crypto startups this year, just halfway through 2025. That’s almost the entire 2024 total. VCs just got smarter.
So, where is the capital flowing now? 💡3 HOT VC THEMES:
▪️ AI x Crypto: Smarter contracts, automated workflows — real value beyond buzzwords.
▪️ Next-gen Trading Platforms: Investors love platforms that let traders compete, turning the chaotic world of crypto trading into a gamified, engaging experience.
▪️ User-Friendly Crypto Apps: It’s all about simplicity. Apps that help regular people store, send, and use crypto without needing a PhD in blockchain.
💬 What does it mean for founders?
No more chasing buzzwords. If your product is clear, usable, and solves a real problem, you're in the game. The VC bar is higher, but the upside is bigger 🚀
May 2025 saw the lowest number of Web3 VC deals since Jan 2021.
VC cash flow? Down. Hype? ❌ Gone. Panic? Not here.
Because here’s the twist
🧠 Over $9B has already been invested in crypto startups this year, just halfway through 2025. That’s almost the entire 2024 total. VCs just got smarter.
So, where is the capital flowing now? 💡3 HOT VC THEMES:
▪️ AI x Crypto: Smarter contracts, automated workflows — real value beyond buzzwords.
▪️ Next-gen Trading Platforms: Investors love platforms that let traders compete, turning the chaotic world of crypto trading into a gamified, engaging experience.
▪️ User-Friendly Crypto Apps: It’s all about simplicity. Apps that help regular people store, send, and use crypto without needing a PhD in blockchain.
💬 What does it mean for founders?
No more chasing buzzwords. If your product is clear, usable, and solves a real problem, you're in the game. The VC bar is higher, but the upside is bigger 🚀
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😂 Friday Fun-Chain: Kick-off the Weekend with Web3 Jokes
Week’s done, Git pushes are green, and the market’s (probably) red. Time to lighten the node ⛓️👇
“I asked a VC for seed money. They sent me a crate of avocados, said they only fund organic growth.” 🥑
“Why don’t Web3 founders play hide-and-seek? Because every move is on-chain.” 🧐
“NFT dating: you both swipe right, but the gas fee costs more than the dinner.” 💸
“Bear market? I renamed my portfolio ‘JPEG’ because it just keeps getting compressed.” 📉
“Proof-of-Work is me explaining blockchain to my parents: huge energy usage, zero consensus.” ⚡️
“Startups are like smart contracts: if the logic’s wrong, you’ll only know after it goes live.” 🚀
“The only thing more volatile than crypto prices is the Wi-Fi at a Web3 conference.” 📶
🤔 Your turn: drop your own crypto punchline in the comments or smash 😂 if any of these hit your funny hash. Let’s wrap up the week with good vibes and roll into the weekend ready to BUIDL stronger on Monday! 💪
Week’s done, Git pushes are green, and the market’s (probably) red. Time to lighten the node ⛓️👇
“I asked a VC for seed money. They sent me a crate of avocados, said they only fund organic growth.” 🥑
“Why don’t Web3 founders play hide-and-seek? Because every move is on-chain.” 🧐
“NFT dating: you both swipe right, but the gas fee costs more than the dinner.” 💸
“Bear market? I renamed my portfolio ‘JPEG’ because it just keeps getting compressed.” 📉
“Proof-of-Work is me explaining blockchain to my parents: huge energy usage, zero consensus.” ⚡️
“Startups are like smart contracts: if the logic’s wrong, you’ll only know after it goes live.” 🚀
“The only thing more volatile than crypto prices is the Wi-Fi at a Web3 conference.” 📶
🤔 Your turn: drop your own crypto punchline in the comments or smash 😂 if any of these hit your funny hash. Let’s wrap up the week with good vibes and roll into the weekend ready to BUIDL stronger on Monday! 💪
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💥 Airstrikes, Panic Sellers, Fast Rebounds: A Full Breakdown of the Crypto Market
📉 Over the weekend, US strikes on Iranian targets rattled investors. Bitcoin slipped below $99 000, the lowest since early May. By Monday, the bid returned, lifting BTC back to the $101-102 K zone. Most majors followed suit: ETH eased ≈0.5 %, XRP lost up to 4 %.
🔎 What this tells us
▪️ The market is acting more mature. Sharp dips are met by equally sharp recoveries, showing deeper liquidity and cooler heads.
▪️ Technically, BTC is coiling between $100 K and $107 K. Breakouts will hinge on macro news or fresh geopolitical shocks.
📈 Scenarios ahead
▪️ Calmer headlines could pull BTC toward $107-112 K.
▪️ New flashpoints may drive fresh sell-offs, yet recent price action proves buyers are waiting below.
💼 How it shapes decisions
👤 Cautious newcomers often pause or trim positions to “wait it out”. Nothing wrong with risk control.
👤 Seasoned holders frame every 5-10 % dip as dry-powder season. They price in volatility, not fear it.
👤 Funds and big pockets map moves to long-range themes: infra growth, AI x blockchain, corporate adoption. They add only when stability returns.
Startups succeed when they rise above the noise. Show product traction, ship updates, keep investor comms transparent – that steadiness beats market mood swings.
📌 Bottom line:
shocks grab headlines, but the underlying trend is neither broken nor euphoric. Treat fear as discounted entry, stay mission-focused, and make volatility your strategic lever. Founders who keep shipping in messy markets earn the spotlight when calm returns.
📉 Over the weekend, US strikes on Iranian targets rattled investors. Bitcoin slipped below $99 000, the lowest since early May. By Monday, the bid returned, lifting BTC back to the $101-102 K zone. Most majors followed suit: ETH eased ≈0.5 %, XRP lost up to 4 %.
🔎 What this tells us
▪️ The market is acting more mature. Sharp dips are met by equally sharp recoveries, showing deeper liquidity and cooler heads.
▪️ Technically, BTC is coiling between $100 K and $107 K. Breakouts will hinge on macro news or fresh geopolitical shocks.
📈 Scenarios ahead
▪️ Calmer headlines could pull BTC toward $107-112 K.
▪️ New flashpoints may drive fresh sell-offs, yet recent price action proves buyers are waiting below.
💼 How it shapes decisions
👤 Cautious newcomers often pause or trim positions to “wait it out”. Nothing wrong with risk control.
👤 Seasoned holders frame every 5-10 % dip as dry-powder season. They price in volatility, not fear it.
👤 Funds and big pockets map moves to long-range themes: infra growth, AI x blockchain, corporate adoption. They add only when stability returns.
Startups succeed when they rise above the noise. Show product traction, ship updates, keep investor comms transparent – that steadiness beats market mood swings.
📌 Bottom line:
shocks grab headlines, but the underlying trend is neither broken nor euphoric. Treat fear as discounted entry, stay mission-focused, and make volatility your strategic lever. Founders who keep shipping in messy markets earn the spotlight when calm returns.
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🔧 This Free Tool Could Save Your Token Launch
Web3 founders don’t fail because of bad tech. They fail because, on paper, their tokenomics look great — until they hit the market.
AlphaMind’s ROI Simulator helps you see the investor reality behind your unlock schedules — before launch, not after the damage.
📥 Plug in your vesting model.
📈 Visualise ROI over time.
📊 Stress-test unlocks under real market conditions.
✅ No guesswork. Just clarity.
💡 Already used in VC calls, launchpad reviews, and live audits to win trust.
👉 Want to avoid the classic TGE crash? Read the breakdown & try the tool for free.
Web3 founders don’t fail because of bad tech. They fail because, on paper, their tokenomics look great — until they hit the market.
AlphaMind’s ROI Simulator helps you see the investor reality behind your unlock schedules — before launch, not after the damage.
📥 Plug in your vesting model.
📈 Visualise ROI over time.
📊 Stress-test unlocks under real market conditions.
✅ No guesswork. Just clarity.
💡 Already used in VC calls, launchpad reviews, and live audits to win trust.
👉 Want to avoid the classic TGE crash? Read the breakdown & try the tool for free.
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⚠️ Founders, tired of investors ghosting you? 🤨
Web3 deal volume in 2025 dropped from 1,200 to just 300 per quarter.
The odds are brutal.
But still most rejections aren’t about market conditions.
They’re about red flags in your pitch that VCs see (but you DON’T).
We trained an AI fundraising coach on thousands of VC rejections to help you finally understand what’s wrong with your fundraising.
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Web3 deal volume in 2025 dropped from 1,200 to just 300 per quarter.
The odds are brutal.
But still most rejections aren’t about market conditions.
They’re about red flags in your pitch that VCs see (but you DON’T).
We trained an AI fundraising coach on thousands of VC rejections to help you finally understand what’s wrong with your fundraising.
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💸 Fundraising in Web3: it’s not just hard — sometimes it feels absurd.
From clueless investor calls to pitch deck déjà vus, founders often find themselves in surreal situations. It’s funny… until you’re living it.
🎥 Watch this video and tell us it doesn't feel too real.
Whether you're chasing that first cheque or surviving rejection — remember: every great founder went through this chaos.
Stay sharp, stay persistent, and keep building. Your moment will come 🔥
From clueless investor calls to pitch deck déjà vus, founders often find themselves in surreal situations. It’s funny… until you’re living it.
🎥 Watch this video and tell us it doesn't feel too real.
Whether you're chasing that first cheque or surviving rejection — remember: every great founder went through this chaos.
Stay sharp, stay persistent, and keep building. Your moment will come 🔥
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🧭 Startup Founders, this one's a goldmine!
If you're building a web3 startup, understanding metrics isn’t just “nice to have” — it's mission-critical.
The crew at Speedinvest Pirates dropped a free 47-page guide on startup metrics that covers:
✅ Product-Market Fit signals
✅ CAC, LTV, Churn explained simply
✅ Metric frameworks for B2B vs B2C
✅ The “North Star” metric strategy
✅ Fundraising metrics investors actually care about
Forget fluffy blogs — this is founder-first, no-BS content from operators who’ve scaled.
📘 Grab the PDF: The Ultimate Guide to Startup Metrics
🚀 Hungry for more resources like this?
Join the InnMind community — your hub for tools, insights, and connections tailored for web3 founders.
If you're building a web3 startup, understanding metrics isn’t just “nice to have” — it's mission-critical.
The crew at Speedinvest Pirates dropped a free 47-page guide on startup metrics that covers:
✅ Product-Market Fit signals
✅ CAC, LTV, Churn explained simply
✅ Metric frameworks for B2B vs B2C
✅ The “North Star” metric strategy
✅ Fundraising metrics investors actually care about
Forget fluffy blogs — this is founder-first, no-BS content from operators who’ve scaled.
📘 Grab the PDF: The Ultimate Guide to Startup Metrics
🚀 Hungry for more resources like this?
Join the InnMind community — your hub for tools, insights, and connections tailored for web3 founders.
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Contribute to openlawyer/documentos development by creating an account on GitHub.
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📈 Web3 Investment Momentum is Back On Track
In June 2025, Web3 startups secured $1.15B across 140 deals — a steady rise in both capital (+3%) and deal flow (+9%) compared to May.
But the bigger story❓Q1 2025 saw $3.8B invested in crypto & blockchain startups — a massive 138% leap from Q4 2024.
This isn’t just a rebound. It’s a signal: VCs are actively backing new projects again.
💡 Despite market noise, investor appetite for early-stage Web3 is alive and growing. Deal sizes are increasing. Trust is rebuilding.
Founders — if you’re building something real, now’s a damn good time to go raise.
👀 Just don’t wait for “perfect market timing.” Keep building. Keep pitching. The wave is forming.
In June 2025, Web3 startups secured $1.15B across 140 deals — a steady rise in both capital (+3%) and deal flow (+9%) compared to May.
But the bigger story❓Q1 2025 saw $3.8B invested in crypto & blockchain startups — a massive 138% leap from Q4 2024.
This isn’t just a rebound. It’s a signal: VCs are actively backing new projects again.
💡 Despite market noise, investor appetite for early-stage Web3 is alive and growing. Deal sizes are increasing. Trust is rebuilding.
Founders — if you’re building something real, now’s a damn good time to go raise.
👀 Just don’t wait for “perfect market timing.” Keep building. Keep pitching. The wave is forming.
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3 Web3 Games Burned $20M+ in 2025 — Here's What Killed Them
These weren’t memecoins or weekend hacks.
Nyan Heroes, Blast Royale, and Rumble Kong League raised millions, had serious teams and hype... and still shut down in 2025.
We broke down:
⚡️What they promised
⚡️Where they collapsed
⚡️What lessons founders must learn in 2025
📩 Founders — if you're building in Web3 or AI, message us. We'll share the “Pre-Fail Checklist” we use with our incubated teams.
These weren’t memecoins or weekend hacks.
Nyan Heroes, Blast Royale, and Rumble Kong League raised millions, had serious teams and hype... and still shut down in 2025.
We broke down:
⚡️What they promised
⚡️Where they collapsed
⚡️What lessons founders must learn in 2025
📩 Founders — if you're building in Web3 or AI, message us. We'll share the “Pre-Fail Checklist” we use with our incubated teams.
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I bet you’ve probably tried to use AI for your startup fundraising:
- Tried diff. prompt packs, but your pitch remains weak
- Spent nights in ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity to find out… most of the results are trash.
- Wasted hundreds of dollars for AI tools, only to end up with the same frustration.
AI can help you draft a whole deck in 1 minute, but that deck will be useless for fundraising. You plug your docs or cold email into ChatGPT and get... generic nonsense that wouldn’t convince even your dog to invest it’s treats.
But what if the problem isn’t the AI?
The problem = No system.
The real problem is the way we use AI, skipping critical context, ignoring investor signals, pitching the wrong people, and sounding like a desperate growth hacker.
🧠 We just dropped a new article for early-stage founders who want to use AI strategically to raise smarter and faster.
It breaks down the first 4 of 10 layers in the FundraiseOS framework: an AI-powered system that actually gets investor replies.
You’ll learn how to:
→ Sync AI with your real context (not garbage prompts)
→ Map your pitch to VC trends
→ Target investors who actually care
→ Rewrite your messaging to sound like you're already in their portfolio
If you're done wasting time with AI fluff and want results - grab the article, steal the framework, run with it.
📬 Read here → https://blog.innmind.com/ai-startup-fundraising-fundraiseos/
Save this post if you ever felt “AI magic” didn’t deliver in fundraising. And share your stories of using the 4 steps in the comments. We read everything you share!
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How AI Can Transform Your Startup Fundraising
Learn how AI-driven frameworks can dramatically boost your startup fundraising efficiency and help attract targeted investors faster.
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Sequoia unpacked their internal thesis on where AI is headed. Trillions are on the table. But here’s what actually matters if you’re building in AI x Web3 in 2025:
1. The game is at the application layer
Not infra. Not base models. The winners will be the ones solving real, vertical problems with end-to-end AI-powered workflows. Nail that, and you get margin, moats, and momentum.
2. Distribution is already solved. Speed isn’t
Global rails (internet, social, APIs) are in place. The market is pulling hard. If you’re not shipping fast, someone else will. This is the fastest adoption cycle in tech history.
3. Moats = trust + usage data
Defensibility won’t come from hype or tech specs. It comes from trust (early) and usage-driven data flywheels (later). But the data only matters if it ties directly to a business outcome.
4. Vertical agents are already outperforming humans
Not hypothetically: in areas like DevOps, networking, and security, specialized agents are starting to beat human teams. The future isn’t “prompt engineer”-it’s AI-native orgs.
5. One-person unicorns are coming 👤
AI is shifting us into an era of leverage. Labor is no longer the constraint. Taste, speed, and clarity are. Startups will scale faster and leaner than ever. Are you ready to build that way?
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Save this if you’re building.
You can watch their keynote video here, but to save your time we’ll break down the full Sequoia deck in InnMind blog next week.🤝
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🗂 SAFE + Token Warrant Template for Crypto-Friendly Fundraising
Web3 founders often face a tough challenge: how to structure a deal that balances traditional equity investment and future token distribution.
This new hybrid template combines a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) with a Token Warrant, giving you a globally adaptable framework for early-stage fundraising.
Why it’s useful for startups:
▪️ Designed for seed-stage Web3 projects
▪️ Covers equity and token rights in one document
▪️ Founder-conscious and investor-friendly terms
▪️ Includes guidance on jurisdictions, vesting, and regulatory compliance
This template is crypto-friendly and TGE-ready, helping you close deals faster while staying aligned with key legal considerations.
👉 Access the template now in InnMind’s Knowledge Base.
Web3 founders often face a tough challenge: how to structure a deal that balances traditional equity investment and future token distribution.
This new hybrid template combines a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) with a Token Warrant, giving you a globally adaptable framework for early-stage fundraising.
Why it’s useful for startups:
▪️ Designed for seed-stage Web3 projects
▪️ Covers equity and token rights in one document
▪️ Founder-conscious and investor-friendly terms
▪️ Includes guidance on jurisdictions, vesting, and regulatory compliance
This template is crypto-friendly and TGE-ready, helping you close deals faster while staying aligned with key legal considerations.
👉 Access the template now in InnMind’s Knowledge Base.
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🚀 Sequoia’s AI Playbook: The Next Chapter for Founders
Last week, we shared Sequoia’s AI forecast for 2025—why the winners aren’t building models or infra, but vertical applications solving real problems. If you missed it, catch up here.
Now let’s take it deeper. At Sequoia’s closed-door AI Ascent 2025 event, their partners revealed how the agent economy is reshaping startups, why “vibe-driven growth” is a trap, and how one-person unicorns are no longer science fiction.
Key takeaways:
✅ The real fight is at the application layer—founders solving workflows end-to-end will own the moat.
✅ Specialised AI agents are already outperforming human experts in DevOps, security, and more.
✅ Leverage is everything—speed, trust, and flexibility will define the next generation of breakout companies.
We’ve decoded the full playbook for founders building in AI x Web3. Start here and prepare to shape the future:
👉 Read the full article.
Save this for your roadmap. The agent economy is coming.
Last week, we shared Sequoia’s AI forecast for 2025—why the winners aren’t building models or infra, but vertical applications solving real problems. If you missed it, catch up here.
Now let’s take it deeper. At Sequoia’s closed-door AI Ascent 2025 event, their partners revealed how the agent economy is reshaping startups, why “vibe-driven growth” is a trap, and how one-person unicorns are no longer science fiction.
Key takeaways:
✅ The real fight is at the application layer—founders solving workflows end-to-end will own the moat.
✅ Specialised AI agents are already outperforming human experts in DevOps, security, and more.
✅ Leverage is everything—speed, trust, and flexibility will define the next generation of breakout companies.
We’ve decoded the full playbook for founders building in AI x Web3. Start here and prepare to shape the future:
👉 Read the full article.
Save this for your roadmap. The agent economy is coming.
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Sequoia AI Ascent 2025 Breakdown for Startup Founders
A practical, founder-centric breakdown of Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent keynote. Learn what matters now and how to build in the emerging agent economy.
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3️⃣ Early Mistakes That Kill Web3 Startups (and how to avoid them)
💡 Every month, promising Web3 teams shut down from avoidable mistakes. Learn from others so you don’t have to learn the hard way.
We’re also sharing real examples of companies that failed because of these mistakes—so you can avoid repeating them.
👆 Here are 3 startup-killers to dodge:
💡 Every month, promising Web3 teams shut down from avoidable mistakes. Learn from others so you don’t have to learn the hard way.
We’re also sharing real examples of companies that failed because of these mistakes—so you can avoid repeating them.
👆 Here are 3 startup-killers to dodge:
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