European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth. The main driver was AI, which for the first time claimed more than 50% of the...
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While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospace...
In a quarter when nearly two-thirds of global venture capital went to just four companies, it’s easy to lose track of the many other companies...
U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds in the first quarter of 2026 per...
Startup investors kept up the busy dealmaking pace this week with a number of big rounds. Top among them was a $1.75 billion Series D for Austin...
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ...
The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI’s disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings went...
Small and mid-sized deals are not a long-term growth area for M&A, by many measures, but collectively they can add up to a tidy sum. The total deal...
Annual Series B funding is moving steadily higher after hitting a low in 2023, ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ data shows, and this year is off to a strong start as well.
February closed with the largest startup investment of all time — OpenAI’s $110 billion financing — but did not bring a jump in overall deal count...
¸½½üÉÏÃÅ data shows global venture investment totaled $189 billion in February — the largest startup funding month on record — although 83% of...


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