From American Express to Goldman Sachs and Deloitte, a lots of financial firms decided to make blockchain investments.
To provide you a insightful and easy to read, we want to share with you the following infographic originally published by CB Insight.
Consortia are not included in this infographic.
Even if the quarterly deal activity reached its lowest point since Q2’14 in Q4’16, the quarter’s top two financing deals featured investments by the most important financial companies.
This way, Axoni saw Wells Fargo lead its $18M Series A, which included a few important investors such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, F-Prime Capital and Thomson Reuters.
During the last 3 years, blockchain investments reached their apex in the fall of 2015 and in the winter of 2016.
Recently, Deloitte, Miami International Holdings (MIAX) and Credit China placed their first blockchain investment and Deloitte took a corporate minority stake in a platform called SETL.
In total, more than 50 financial companies decided to invest in a bitcoin or blockchain-related startups since the beginning of 2014.
Also, it is important to note that a small group of blockchain startups received the greatest part of the total investment. Those – who have received nearly $625M in funding – include: Ripple, BitFury Group, Blockstream, Digital Asset Holdings, and Chain.
Let’s see what happen in 2017 and stay tuned for more relevant news!
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