Helsing, Gauntlet and Drug Farm's rounds this week are early evidence that H1 2026's concentration pattern -- record capital, AI capturing 86%, the top five managers taking 73.1% -- is continuing into Q3, not reversing.
Jul 14, 2026DeFi risk-management firm Gauntlet raised $125 million in a Series C with Japan's SBI Holdings as the sole investor, its largest raise ever, to expand into stablecoins, tokenization and traditional capital-markets infrastructure.
Jul 13, 2026Gauntlet, the DeFi vault-curation and risk-management firm whose clients include Coinbase, Circle and Apollo, raised $125 million in a single-investor round from Japan's SBI Holdings -- its largest capital infusion since founding in 2018.
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