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We identified 135 blockchain startups that have closed significant initial coin offering rounds for their tokens since 2014 and organized them into sixteen categories, from healthcare to computing to gambling.
While some thought Q2’17 was blockchain’s wildest quarter, Q3’17 looks like it’s going to take the title by a landslide.
Year-to-date, ICOs (“initial coin offerings”) have raised more than $1.6B. In first place, core infrastructure and blockchain governance platform Tezos raised $230M in Q3’17. Distributed file storage platform Filecoin claimed the second-largest closed ICO with its approximately $210M token sale in Q3’17 according to two Form D’s submitted by the company, although other sources put the total raise higher at around $250M. Both ICOs closed within a matter of weeks, and both projects have yet to release a consumer-ready platform. Notably, Tezos used some of the cash to launch a $50M venture fund that will support development on top of Tezos.
Blockchains are cryptographically secured distributed ledgers, first developed as the underlying technology of the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin. Our blockchain definition includes cryptocurrency-focused companies as well as distributed ledger-focused companies applying the technology across sectors.
Via Douglas G Hall
