Fintech funding rises to highest Q1 period in two years

They amassed $10.3b in funding across 777 deals made.

Financial technology (Fintech) companies captured the highest level of quarterly funding in two years in the first three months of 2025, according to data from CB Insights.

Fintech companies amassed $10.3b in funding in Q1, 18% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) higher, and its first time to surpass $10b in two years.

One deal in particular drove up the total: Binance’s $2b corporate minority round from MGX.

In contrast, dealmaking declined by 3% QoQ to just 777 deals made. This marks the fourth straight quarter of declines, according to CB Insights.

Of the total deals, at least 16% of them involve AI companies, at 122 deals. Their share of fintech funding made up 17% of the total.

Meanwhile, more than half of the top seed and Series A deals during the period went ot companies involved in crypto, blockchain, and digital asset solutions.

Beyond this, amongst the 10 biggest fintech deals of the quarter, 3 of them were crypto and blockchain companies. Digital asset bank Sygnum was one of the quarter’s 3 new fintech unicorns.

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