加密风险投资公司 Paradigm 正在通过其最新基金将投资目光扩大到人工智能和其他前沿行业。 Paradigm 为其第四只基金筹集了 12 亿美元,该基金将扩大这家加密货币风险投资公司对人工智能和相关技术的投资。 该公司周三表示,其最新基金将“首先投资加密货币,现在投资人工智能、机器人和其他领域”。 Paradigm 补充道:“我们将继续投资加密货币以及市场和金融体系的重塑。”他强调了其对加密永续交易所 Hyperliquid 和预测市场平台 Kalshi 的投资。 Paradigm 于 2018 年推出,已为三只专注于加密货币的基金筹集了超过 40 亿美元。它对人工智能的兴趣遵循了最初专注于加密货币的公司的趋势,这些公司被吸引到利润丰厚且快速增长的行业。 资料来源:黄马特 《华尔街日报》2 月份报道称,Paradigm 正在寻求为一只投资人工智能和机器人技术的新基金筹集 15 亿美元。
据报道,该公司管理层决定扩大投资,因为它不想受到限制并错过有吸引力的交易。加密货币和人工智能之间也存在明显的重叠,例如人工智能代理。 Crypto.com 和 Coinbase 等加密货币交易所在人工智能代理上下了很大的赌注,向用户提供技术并更新平台以迎合机器人的需求。 随着人工智能资金达到顶峰,加密货币资金下降 其他加密风险投资公司已经超越了加密领域,包括 Framework Ventures,该公司上个月为其第四只基金筹集了 4 亿美元,用于投资加密以及人工智能、机器人和能源。 今年 5 月,加密风险投资公司 Haun Ventures 筹集了 10 亿美元来支持加密初创公司,并首次扩展到人工智能领域。 据 Crunchbase 7 月 2 日报道,2026 年上半年全球风险投资额达到创纪录的 5100 亿美元,创下半年投资新纪录,超过去年全年投资额 4400 亿美元。 相关:Morpho 的 1.75 亿美元融资表明加密货币风险投资资金流向 AI公司占据了大部分投资,其中OpenAI和Anthropic占上半年资金的40%以上。
与此同时,根据 Cryptorank 的数据,加密货币仅占据了所有风险投资流的一部分,上半年加密货币融资达到 108 亿美元。 Paradigm 强调,其一些非加密投资包括自主无人机送货服务 Zipline、机器人金属制造平台 SendCutSend 和人工智能公司 Nous Research(该公司创建了开源人工智能模型 Hermes Agent)。 它补充说,它将“继续研究和建设加速加密行业发展的领域”,并指出了区块链工具 Foundry 和 Reth 以及人工智能项目 EVMbench 和 Centaur。 特点:人工智能的电力紧缩将比特币矿工的电网接入变成了一种资产
Crypto venture firm Paradigm is widening its investment gaze toward AI and other frontier industries with its latest fund.
Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion for its fourth fund, which will expand the crypto venture capital firm’s investments into artificial intelligence and related technologies.
The company said on Wednesday that its latest fund will invest “first in crypto, and now across AI, robotics and other frontiers.”
“We continue investing in crypto and the reinvention of markets and the financial system,” Paradigm added, highlighting its investments in the crypto perpetuals exchange Hyperliquid and the prediction markets platform Kalshi.
Paradigm launched in 2018 and has raised more than $4 billion for three funds focused on crypto. Its interest in AI follows a trend of originally crypto-focused companies that have been lured to the lucrative and fast-growing sector.
Source: Matt Huang
The Wall Street Journal reported in February that Paradigm was seeking to raise $1.5 billion for a new fund that would invest in AI and robotics.
The company’s management reportedly decided to broaden its investments as it didn’t want to be restricted and miss out on attractive deals. There was also a noted overlap between crypto and AI, such as with AI agents.
Crypto exchanges such as Crypto.com and Coinbase have made big bets on AI agents, offering the technology to their users and updating their platforms to cater to the bots.
Crypto funding sinks as AI funding peaks
Other crypto venture companies have moved beyond crypto, including Framework Ventures, which raised $400 million for its fourth fund last month for investments in crypto as well as AI, robotics and energy.
In May, crypto venture firm Haun Ventures raised $1 billion to back crypto startups and expanded into AI for the first time.
Global venture funding hit a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, a new record for half-year investments that surpassed the $440 billion invested across all of last year, Crunchbase reported on July 2.
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AI companies made up the majority of the investment, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for more than 40% of funding in the first half of the year.
Meanwhile, crypto captured only a portion of all venture flows, with funding into crypto in the first half hitting $10.8 billion, according to Cryptorank.
Paradigm highlighted that some of its non-crypto investments included the autonomous drone delivery service Zipline, the robotic metal fabrication platform SendCutSend and the AI company Nous Research, which created the open-source AI model Hermes Agent.
It added that it would “continue to research and build where it accelerates” the crypto industry, and noted the blockchain tools Foundry and Reth and the AI projects EVMbench and Centaur.
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