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Talent flocks to AI but ‘frothy’ market turns off VCs: Dragonfly Capital

Dragonfly Capital general partner Tom Schmidt urged crypto projects to consider whether they need venture capital funding. 

While many talented professionals are getting into artificial intelligence, Dragonfly Capital’s general partner said in its current state, the space is turning off venture capitalists. 

In an interview with Cointelegraph’s Ciaran Lyons at the Token2049 event in Singapore, Schmidt said that crypto and AI are currently competing for talent. With AI being a new technological development, the venture capital executive said that professionals are currently more attracted to the field. He explained: 

However, the same cannot be said for venture capitalists. Regarding capital, Schmidt said that people are getting more turned off by AI because it seems very “frothy and overallocated.” 

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Dragonfly Capital raises $650M in tertiary funding round

Dragonfly, a well-established figure within the venture capital scene, will utilize the capital to invest in early- to mid-term projects within the crypto ecosystem.

Dragonfly Capital, a prominent venture capital corporation operating in the cryptocurrency sector, has announced its third funding round, valued at $650 million. The figure surpasses its two prior rounds of $100 million in October 2018 and $200 million in December 2020.

The $650 million raise saw participation from Tiger Global, KKR, Sequoia China and Invesco, among others, and arrived at slightly higher than the $500 million initially declared to the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form D filing in January.

The introduction of Dragonfly Fund III was coupled with a pledge to distribute financial support to projects at seed to Series B funding levels within the sectors of decentralized finance, crypto gaming and the metaverse, among others.

The Cayman Island-based corporation is often positioned at the forefront of the industry’s most prominent venture raises, having invested in 54 projects, including Avalanche’s $12 million private token sale in June 2020, Dune Analytics’ $2 million seed round in September 2020, and Dydx’s $10 million Series A in October 2018, among others.

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