The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured $300 billion into 6,000 ...

Investors poured $300B into 6,000 startups globally in the first quarter of 2026, up over 150% Q/Q and Y/Y, Crunchbase data ...

The record quarterly fundraise largely fueled four mega-deals into OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo. But it also indicates a generally hot market.

Austin startups brought in at least $4.2 billion in venture capital in the first quarter, the highest total on record.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 4/16/2026 featuring funding details for ...

As of March 31, foundational AI startups had raised $178 billion across 24 deals, compared with $88.9 billion across 66 deals in all of 2025 in a 100% increase. That’s also significantly higher — 466.

Massive rounds for AI, EDA, and manufacturing; 80 startups raise $8.4B.

The promise of AI dominated the last quarter of 2025. Investors were eager to claim stakes in both brand-new startups and more established companies developing AI-specific hardware, primarily for data ...

The US venture market didn't slow down in March 2026 — it accelerated. Defense AI, autonomous drones, satellite navigation, ...

The finalists are: mpathic, ElastixAI, Dropzone AI, Dopl Technologies, and Loopr AI.

Investor interest for AI chip startups is rising, but big challenges remain for the nascent sector.

Seattle customer engagement startup Ambassador has acquired the operating assets of Tacoma-based programmatic ad platform ...