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Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News) from Techmeme RSS feed.
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total — The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs.