Top 10 Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Capital Raises and Investors in the U.S. – September 1st to 15th, 2025

Several interesting transactions closed in the Cryptocurrency/Blockchain sector over the past two weeks. If you would like more info or would like to discuss the capital raising market for your company, please contact me.

PE Growth/Expansion

1. Tetra Trust, digital asset custodian platform that secures the storage of digital assets, received $10 million of development capital from Wealthsimple, NAventures, Shopify, Shakepay, Purpose Unlimited, ATB Financial and Urbana on September 4, 2025.

Merger/Acquisition

2. Meso, web3 native payment platform that connects banks and cards to crypto apps, was acquired by MoonPay USA on September 15, 2025.
3. Molecular Labs, blockchain infrastructure technology that accelerates staked and re-staked digital assets, was acquired by Paxos Labs, a subsidiary of Paxos, on September 7, 2025.

Later Stage VC

4. Pointsville, digital asset platforms that bridge traditional financial systems with emerging technologies, raised $10 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Valor Capital Group on September 4, 2025, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $74 million.

Early Stage VC

5. Etherealize, blockchain infrastructure for secure and compliant digital asset ecosystems, raised $40 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Paradigm and Electric Capital on September 3, 2025.
6. Plug, on-chain activity platform that manages, composes, schedules, and executes all crypto activity in one place, raised venture funding from w3.fund in September 2025.
7. Solido, decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure that creates a capital-efficient DeFi financial ecosystem, raised $800,000 of venture funding in a deal led by Supra and Cashaa on September 11, 2025.

Seed Round

8. Aria, tokenization platform that brings revenue-generating, real-world, intellectual property (IP) on chain, raised seed funding in a deal led by Polychain Capital and Neoclassic on September 3, 2025, putting the company’s post-valuation at $50 million.
9. Button Labs, Bitcoin-native financial platform that facilitates access to decentralized financial tools using Bitcoin as collateral, raised $3.75 million of Seed funding from investors on September 5, 2025, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $17.25 million.
10. Reflect Money, decentralized finance infrastructure platform that automates DeFi strategies, enhances capital efficiency and delivers decentralized financial services integrated with insurance, raised $3.75 million of seed funding in a deal led by Andreessen Horowitz on September 2, 2025.

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