Venture Capital

Venture investments saw "unprecedented spending" on AI compute and frontier labs, as investors poured $300 billion into 6,000 startups during the first quarter of this year. Notably, funding for startups in the first quarter of 2026 alone accounted for nearly 70% of the total venture capital...

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is reportedly raising $3.5 billion for artificial intelligence startups in the software, healthcare, transportation and autonomy sectors. The firm will invest $1 billion in its 22 early-stage funds and will focus on finding AI startups in, while the remaining $2...

Venture Capital firm General Catalyst is in discussions with investors to raise approximately $10 billion in new capital, a number that would set the firm’s size well above other venture firms in the U.S. The $10 billion would be allocated to various vehicles, including growth and early-stage...

Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Fusion Fund, spoke with Benzinga about growth in the startup space and artificial intelligence, as well as areas of the market she finds most attractive right now. • Microsoft stock is trading at depressed...

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo led a record-smashing surge in global startup funding in February, as venture investments reached $189 billion, Crunchbase reported. The company behind ChatGPT raised $110 billion, while rival Anthropic secured $30 billion, and Alphabet's self-driving vehicle division...

ARQ has secured a $70 million funding round led by venture capital firms Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital.  The Latin American financial app plans to rebrand and hire new talent using the capital, a Bloomberg article stated. ARQ is a global financial services platform serving millions of...

Josh Kushner's venture capital firm Thrive Capital has raised more than $10 billion for a new fund, Thrive X, which will target investments in AI applications, infrastructure, robotics and life sciences. The funding round saw abundant investor interest as the VC firm "turned away billions in...

California has introduced a new regulatory regime requiring venture capital firms operating in the state to report demographic data on the founders they fund, under a statute establishing "Fair Investment Practices by Venture Capital Companies." The law, contained in Division 2.5 of the...

Former Chrous One CIO Xavier Meegan launched Frachtis, a $20 million crypto-native pre-seed fund. The fund is backed by investors including Theta Capital, RockawayX, Chorus One, and Cyber Fund. Meegan led over 40 investments during his tenure at Chorus One. Now at Frachtis, his focus is on...

Thanks to their shared history in the venture capital space, there is some overlap in investments and past company dealings between Peter Thiel and Vice President J.D. Vance. A Medicare startup that recently raised $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation counts Thiel and Vance as early investors...

Digital engineering startup Rescale has secured $115 million in Series D funding, raising its total funding to more than $260 million. Investors in the round included chip giant, Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDIA), the venture capital arm of semiconductor company Applied Materials Inc (NASDAQ:AMAT),...

Venture capitalist Tim Draper is best known these days for his investment and bullish outlook in Bitcoin. It wasn't too long ago he was investing in Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX, investments that draw continued praise for Elon Musk in a recent interview. What Happened: In a recent appearance...

Vice President J.D. Vance is being put in charge of overseeing a deal to save TikTok after President Donald Trump changed his mind and decided to temporarily save the Chinese social media app. What Happened: Vance, who is a former venture capitalist, is being tasked with helping land the best deal...

Billionaire Peter Thiel, a renowned venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal Holdings and Palantir Technologies, got into Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) investments long before its meteoric bull runs captured the world's attention. However, the long-held conviction appeared to fade, as apparent from one...

Warren Buffett just gained greater exposure to the burgeoning digital bank sector in Africa and Asia. What Happened: Nu Holdings (NYSE:NU) — backed by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK)(NYSE:BRK) — led a new funding round for Singapore-based Tyme Group. Tyme specializes in building...