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fromFortune
7 hours ago

February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks only to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo | Fortune

Global venture funding reached $189 billion in February 2025, with 83% concentrated in three AI companies: OpenAI ($110B), Anthropic ($30B), and Waymo ($16B), while seed-stage funding declined 11% year-over-year.
fromFortune
17 hours ago

Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year-but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data | Fortune

Two-thirds of every U.S. venture dollar going to female-founded startups last year flowed into AI, Pitchbook's latest US All In: Female Founders in the VC Ecosystem report found. And nearly half of that AI money went to just two companies: Anthropic and Scale AI. Meanwhile, ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raised a record-breaking $2 billion seed round for her AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, in July 2025, the largest seed funding in history, valuing the pre-product company at $12 billion.
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