Crypto VC Funding: Mesh Secures $75 Million, Talos Bags $45 Million

The week of January 25-31, 2026, recorded $243.9 million in crypto VC funding across 14 projects, with Mesh (ex Front Finance) leading the final week of January.

Summary

  • Crypto startups raised $243.9M across 14 deals in the final week of January.
  • Mesh led funding with a $75M Series C at a $1B valuation.
  • Payments, trading, cryptography, and RWA tokenization dominated deals.

Here’s a look into this week’s crypto funding activity as per Cryptofundraising data.

Mesh (ex Front Finance)

  • Mesh raised $75 million in a Series C round
  • Fully diluted valuation of $1 billion
  • Backed by Dragonfly, Paradigm, and Moderne Ventures
  • The global crypto payments network has raised a total of $205 million

https://twitter.com/meshpay/status/2016158045613555765

Talos

  • Secured $45 million in a Series B round
  • Fully diluted valuation of $1.50 billion
  • Investors include Robinhood, Sony Innovation Fund, and IMC Trading
  • Talos has raised $190 million so far

Zama

  • Zama raised $44 million through public sale
  • Fully diluted valuation of $550 million
  • Zama is an open-source cryptography company and raised $174 million so far

StreamEx

  • Secured $35 million through IPO
  • Fully diluted valuation of $58 million
  • StreamEx is a real-world asset tokenization platform

Flying Tulip

  • Flying Tulip raised $25.50 million in a Series A round
  • Fully diluted valuation of $1 billion
  • Backed by Amber Group, Foresight Digital, and Paper Ventures

Startale Labs

  • Secured $13 million in a Series A round
  • Backed by Sony Innovation Fund
  • Startale Labs is a Web3 technology company

Funding under $10 million

  • Doppler (Whetstone Research), $9 million in a seed round
  • AetheriumX, $8 million in a strategic round
  • Tenbin Labs, $7.10 million in a seed round
  • Xangle, $6.90 million in an unknown round
  • Everything, $6.90 million in a seed round
  • Bleap, $6 million in a seed round
  • Euclid Protocol, $3.50 million in a seed round
  • Zona, $500,000 in a pre-seed round
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