{"id":46968,"date":"2021-07-30T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46968"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:02:33","slug":"pwc-notes-consolidation-of-venture-capital-in-the-crypto-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pwc-notes-consolidation-of-venture-capital-in-the-crypto-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"PwC notes consolidation of venture capital in the crypto industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in valuations of crypto startups has raised the barrier to participation in investment rounds for small investors. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-07-30\/crypto-deals-attract-bigger-players-who-push-up-prices-pwc-says\">Bloomberg<\/a>, Henri Arslanian, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), said.<\/p>\n<p>The expert noted that as the digital assets industry matures, funding activity and startup valuations are rising. He attributes a leading role in the process to &#8220;giant investors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Arslanian, large players from venture capital, private equity, and pension funds are outstripping smaller boutique firms and family offices. Prices are often inflated early on, when a business is valued at roughly $5 million to $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>The PwC partner also noted high M&amp;A activity. According to him, the figure for 2020 had already reached $3 billion by the end of the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u00abIf you have $50 million on hand, you&#8217;ll have to work hard to find a current investment target. With twice that amount, there will be no more than two dozen such companies\u00bb<\/em>, the specialist said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Crunchbase, in 2021 crypto companies <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-firms-accounted-for-3-of-global-venture-funding-in-2021\">accounted for 3%<\/a> of the global venture investment volume.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, analysts at The Block calculated the funding volume in the blockchain and digital assets industry for the second quarter. They estimated the figure rose by 90%, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/venture-capital-investments-in-the-crypto-industry-in-april-june-reached-6-2-billion\">to a record $6.2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in valuations of crypto startups has raised the barrier to participation in investment rounds for small investors. In an interview with Bloomberg, Henri Arslanian, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1275,1223,1133],"class_list":["post-46968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-pwc","tag-startups","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46970,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968\/revisions\/46970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}