Artificial intelligence startups have received a lion’s part of venture capital investments worldwide in the first quarter of 2025, according to new data from the pitchbook.
“Investors still have an AI Fomo (fear of missing) problem,” the research firm Says In an April 17 report, revealed that 57.9% of the global venture capital dollars in Q1 went to AI and startups at machine studying.
Compared, the first quarter of 2024 saw only 28% of VC dollars packed at AI startups.
Pitchbook said the capital flowing to AI was more concentrated in North America, with 70% of the region’s venture funding to enter AI startups in the first quarter.
The global AI sector raises $ 73 billion in the first quarter, which is more than half of the total amount of deals associated with AI last year. However, more than half of that is for Openai, which closed A $ 40 billion of funding of funding led by Softbank On March 31.
Other well -known Ai funding in March is included Anthropicraising $ 3.5 billion in a series E round.
“The fear of other people who wins your market is never higher than it is today,” said Maria Palma, general partner in freestyle capital. “You have never seen a slowing down because the rate of change in the technology side is almost insoluble,” he added.
Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and partner management at 645 ventures, warned that there are too much going on, “and that means there will be a lot of losses.”
“A lot of VC funds are just kind of saying, ‘Hey, it can just go up.’ And that’s usually a recipe for failure – when it starts to happen, you become separate from the truth, ”he added.
Creed the Crypto Venture Capital
Compared to crypto and blockchain startups only raised $ 4.8 billion in Q1, According to in Cryptorank. About half of this, $ 2 billion, is the Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX investors in Binance.
This is more than four times as long as the $ 1.1 billion raised in the fourth quarter of 2024, and the largest quarter for the amount of crypto venture capital deals from the third quarter of 2022.
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On April 17, Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Ventures Fund was reported to be set to exceeds $ 150 million target funding and can hit $ 180 million when it closes by the end of June.
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