#startup funding

Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. Led by China's $7.4 billion DeepSeek raise, that’s by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years.

We don’t use many exclamation points when writing about startup funding. But the 2021 North American annual tallies require at least a few. In short: It was a really big year for funding! Really, really big!! It was record-setting big, and not by a s

Startup funding in Asia dropped from more than $73 billion in the first half of 2022 to only $36.3 billion for H1 this year, Crunchbase data shows, and that's not all that's fallen.

Initial Crunchbase data shows a slower final quarter ending a lackluster year for global startup funding as venture capital investors continued to hold back in 2023.

Global venture funding in 2024 edged above 2023’s totals, with AI showing the biggest leap in amounts year to year. Overall startup funding in 2024 reached close to $314 billion — compared to $304 billion in 2023 — up around 3%, based on an analysis