Venture capital firms are looking to expand their reach in early-stage projects by partnering with blockchain ecosystems as investor interest continues to grow ahead of 2025. In December, Morph announced a joint initiative with 14 venture firms, including Pantera Capital, Spartan Group, Foresight Ventures, MEXC Ventures, Social Graph Ventures, Rockaway, Levitate Labs, Every Realm, Bloccelerate, MH Ventures, Laser Digital, Paperclip Partners, Public Works, and Borderless Capital.

The group aims to accelerate projects within the network’s ecosystem, providing startups access to investors and mentorship from ideation to token launch. The Web3 ecosystem has seen a surge in investor interest in early-stage startups, with venture firms announcing new funds to back blockchain-based companies.

Recent capital raises include Portal Ventures, DragonFly, Pantera Capital, Hack VC, VanEck, and Parafi Capital. Combined, these funds are expected to pour around $2 billion into crypto startups over the coming months. Some recent startups that raised capital in December include Brighty, which secured $10 million for crypto payments in Europe and the UK, AgriDex, which raised $9 million to tokenize agricultural commodities on Solana, and Yei Finance, which secured $2 million to develop its v2 decentralized lending platform.

Venture capital firm VanEck led Superform’s $3 million seed+ extension round for its yield products that automate non-custodial, high-yield savings. In November 2022, Superform raised $6.5 million in a seed round, bringing its total fundraising to $9.5 million. Waterfall Network raised $11.6 million from Bolt’s Capital, Alpha Token Capital, and Enflux for research and development to improve node simplification, infrastructure, and blockchain scalability.

In December 2024, Waterfall reported 8,647 active validators across a range of jurisdictions. Union raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Gumi Cryptos Capital and Longhash Ventures for its zero-knowledge (ZK) settlement layer, which uses ZK-proofs for secure message passing, asset transfers, and crosschain transactions.

Founders from Polygon, Movement, and Berachain also backed the round. Union is developing Bitcoin interoperability solutions.

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