Bain Capital, Apollo pile in as crypto companies raise $2.5bn in October – DL News
Weekly Raise
- Total investment into crypto firms has already blown past $19 billion this year.
- Polymarket’s $2 billion raise from the Intercontinental Exchange has topped the month.
- A Dutch Bitcoin firm is turning Europeans to the treasury play.
Twenty-seven crypto companies raised over $2.5 billion in October, according to DefiLlama data.
That brings the total funding for crypto companies to over $19 billion so far in 2025, outpacing 2024’s total by over $9 billion.
And analysts say investment in the space is just heating up.
PitchBook predicted that the industry will raise $18 billion this year.
Investors from Galaxy Ventures and Codebase expect it to go even higher and that investors will plough over $25 billion into the industry in 2025.
