8.3 Understanding Venture Capital Investment in the Blockchain Space - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems

As we're looking at investments in the blockchain space, we've talked about venture capital as well, because there's a lot of investment from venture capital in the blockchain space and I will describe to you right now how it has worked out. In fact, in 2018 venture capital investments raised over $3.9 billion. That's actually an increase of 280% over 2017 levels. It just shows a growing appetite in venture capital from the blockchain market. Now, the number of deals also nearly doubled. It just shows a dramatic increase. But, in a similar fashion to what happened also in the security token offerings and also in the initial coin offerings where you saw that in that investment levels started dropping, something similar happened in venture capital as well and in fact, in Q1 2019, $335 million have been raised. What that shows you is that there is still investment from venture capital in the blockchain market, but not at the same pace as in 2018. In fact, it is expected that in 2019, roughly around $1 billion from venture capital investments will be related to blockchain and that is what we're expecting for 2019. However, as the market continues, we will see where it's gonna take us.