Venture capital deployed · 2026 YTD
Sector market cap
Largest raise · trailing 12mo
Catalysts ahead · next 12mo
Companies tracked
Nothing on the calendar yet.
Nothing on the calendar yet.
Mega-rounds ($500M–$20B) dominate past 12 months: xAI $20B Series E, Moonshot $2B, Thinking Machines Lab $2B seed, Safe Superintelligence $2B Series B. Median has shifted sharply upward, with sub-$100M rounds nearly absent among frontrunners. Legacy seed rounds ($20–80M) persist but are dwarfed by outlier mega-seeds like AMI Labs $1B and H Company $220M.
Late-stage capital (Series D+, growth, IPO) now represents majority of deployed capital. Series E rounds ($300–600M) cluster around 2026; Series B–C ($100–350M) stable but less prominent. Seed rounds remain sparse, overshadowed by rare $1B+ outlier seeds. Clear concentration at scale: fewer, bigger checks to proven teams; traditional early-stage nearly dormant.
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Nvidia lead repeat rounds across stages. Radical Ventures and Accel active in 2025–2026. Greenoaks, Long-Z Investments, Schwarz Group emerged as major allocators in 2026. Traditional VCs (Khosla, NEA, Lightspeed) present but quieter than 2023–2024. Corporate investors (Nvidia, Autodesk, AMD Ventures) increasingly prominent syndication partners.
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As of 2026-08-01
