Four Companies Took 65% of All Venture Capital on Earth Last Quarter
Q1 2026 saw $297 billion in startup funding — the most ever. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo captured $188 billion of it. What happens to everyone else?
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Robotics Hits Its Mega-Round Era: $20B+ Funding Pace in 2026
Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, Mind Robotics, Rhoda AI, and Sunday collectively raise billions as investors bet foundation models will crack physical AI.
YC W26 Sets Records: 14 Startups Hit $1M ARR Before Demo Day
Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch is the strongest in the accelerator's 20-year history. Investors project a 10% unicorn rate—more than double the historical average.
Robotics Funding Hits $3B+ in Single Week as VCs Bet on Physical AI
Four startups raised over $3 billion combined, signaling a decisive shift in where AI investment is flowing.
Three Companies Took 83% of February's $189B AI Funding
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo captured most of history's largest venture month while seed funding fell and public markets crashed
The Three-Company Economy: How OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo Swallowed 83% of VC Funding
February 2026 saw a record $189 billion in venture funding. Three companies took $156 billion of it. What happens to everyone else?
VCs Abandon Loyalty, Bet on Both OpenAI and Anthropic Simultaneously
At least a dozen OpenAI investors now back Anthropic too. The traditional VC taboo against funding rivals is collapsing.
AI Startups Are Worth Billions Before They Build Anything
Over half of US seed and Series A funding now goes to $100M+ rounds as investors bet on pedigree over products
Anthropic Raises $30B at $380B Valuation on $14B Revenue
The second-largest venture deal ever reveals an enterprise AI machine growing 10x annually for three straight years
OpenAI Nears $100B Funding at $850B Valuation
The largest private funding round in history brings SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft together in a bet on AGI
Temporal Raises $300M to Solve the Problem Nobody Talks About: AI Agents That Crash
The durable execution platform hit $5 billion valuation as enterprises discover that deploying AI agents is easy -- keeping them running is the hard part.