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2026-01-11
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Wintermute CEO: Has shifted from "casting-net investments," with a project investment approval rate of only 4% in 2025

BlockBeats News, January 8 — Evgeny Gaevoy, founder and CEO of Wintermute, stated that we have evolved from the "scouting-style investment" approach of 2021–2022 to a current project approval rate of only 4%. In 2025, Wintermute Ventures completed 23 investments, mainly leading pre-seed and seed rounds. The investments are not aimed at obtaining market-making (MM) authorization and are completely independent of trading operations. Wintermute Ventures announced that in 2025, they reviewed approximately 600 companies, with 20% entering the formal due diligence stage, and 4% of projects securing funding. The most common financing structure adopted in 2025 was: equity /
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