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Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The US accounted for $70 billion of the Americas' investment total - and for nearly 70 percent of all venture capital (VC) investment globally, said a study.
According to KPMG Private Enterprise quarterly global report on venture capital trends, Q2'25 was a relatively strong quarter for venture capital investment in the Americas, with $72.7 billion raised across 3,425 deals. While this marked a decline from $98.5 billion and 4,048 deals in Q1, the comparison is skewed by OpenAI's $40 billion raise in the previous quarter.
Excluding that outlier, Q2 reflected sustained investor momentum - particularly in AI, defencetech, and spacetech.
AI continued to drive a significant wave of VC investments globally in Q1 '25. The US attracted the largest deals in the space, including a $14.3 billion raise by Scale AI, a $2.5 billion raise by AI-powered defencetech Anduril Industries, $2 billion raise by AI development company Safe Superintelligence, a $2 billion seed round by Thinking Machines Lab, and a $900 million raise by Anysphere - the startup behind the Cursor coding assistan.
AI-native data security firm Cyera raised $500 million, and robotics firm Skild AI raised $540 million. While still an incredibly robust quarter of AI investment, Q2'25 did not have the same frenzied pace of mega-dealmaking compared to other recent quarters. This likely reflects a combination of VC investors wanting to see how specific AI-focused business model...................... To view our full article Click here
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