Research on corporate investments in blockchain technology for the 2021-2022 period
Approximately $6 billion invested in blockchain-based startups in 2021. Samsung and Alphabet are leading the pack, followed by the financial industry corporations.
According to the latest research from Blockdata, 40 corporations invested in companies in the blockchain/crypto space from September 2021 to June 2022.
Korean tech giant Samsung is the most active, having invested in 13 companies.
The research looks at the total funding amounts of the rounds in which companies participated.
Based on this, investors active in the biggest funding rounds are Alphabet ($1,506M in 4 rounds), Blackrock ($1,171M in 3 rounds), Morgan Stanley ($1,10M in 2 rounds), Samsung ($979M in 13 rounds), Goldman Sachs ( $698M in 5 rounds, BNY Mellon ($690M in 3 rounds), and PayPal ($650M in 4 rounds).