Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsArtificial intelligence startups received the lion\u2019s share of venture capital investments across the globe in the first quarter of 2025, according to new data from Pitchbook.
\n\u201cInvestors still have an AI FOMO [fear of missing out] problem,\u201d the research firm said in an April 17 report, which revealed that 57.9% of global venture capital dollars in Q1 went to AI and machine learning startups.
\nComparatively, the first quarter of 2024 saw just 28% of VC dollars channeled into AI startups.
\nPitchbook said the capital flowing into AI was even more concentrated in North America, with 70% of venture funding in the region going into AI startups in the first quarter.
\nThe global AI sector raised $73 billion in the first quarter, which was more than half of the total value of AI-related deals made last year. However, more than half of that was for OpenAI, which closed a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank on March 31.
\nOther notable AI funding rounds in March included Anthropic, which raised $3.5 billion in a Series E round.\u00a0
\n\u201cThe fear of somebody else winning your market has never been higher than it is now,\u201d said Maria Palma, general partner at Freestyle Capital. \u201cYou haven\u2019t seen a slowdown because the rate of change on the technology side is almost indigestible,\u201d she added.\u00a0
\nNnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing partner at 645 Ventures, cautioned that there are extremes happening, \u201cand that\u2019s going to mean there\u2019s going to be a lot of losers.\u201d\u00a0
\n\u201cA lot of VC funds are just kind of saying, \u2018Hey, this can only go up.\u2019 And that\u2019s usually a recipe for failure \u2014 when that starts to happen, you\u2019re becoming detached from reality,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
AI deals as a share of all global VC deal activity. Source: PitchBookCrypto venture capital creeps up\u00a0 Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsArtificial intelligence startups received the lion\u2019s share of venture capital investments across the globe in the first quarter of 2025, according to new data from Pitchbook. \u201cInvestors still… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nComparatively, crypto and blockchain startups raised just $4.8 billion in Q1, according to CryptoRank. Almost half of that, $2 billion, was Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX investing in Binance.\u00a0
\nThis was still over four times as much as the $1.1 billion raised in the fourth quarter of 2024, and the biggest quarter for crypto venture capital deal value since the third quarter of 2022.
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\nCrypto venture capital appears to be warming again with a friendlier regulatory environment emerging in the US.
\nOn April 17, Mike Novogratz\u2019s Galaxy Ventures Fund I was reportedly set to exceed its $150 million funding target and could hit $180 million when it closes at the end of June.\u00a0
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