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Funding to North American startups surged in the first half of 2025, fueled by investor enthusiasm around artificial intelligence, overall pouring $145 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies.
Quarterly and annual reports
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We take a closer look at the major startup and VC trends in Q1 2025.
![Illustration of a guy watering plants with a blocked hose - North America [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/quarterly-n-america-470x352.jpg)
Despite several big deals that buoyed the numbers, North America early- and seed-stage investment declined to multiquarter lows in Q1, and reported...
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Funding to Europe-based startups settled year over year in 2024. Funding reached $51 billion, down by 5% year over year from $54 billion invested in...
Funding to Latin American startups rose in the second quarter, led by a resurgence in late-stage dealmaking and a pickup in venture investment in...
European funding rose in Q2, beating Asia for the first time. Overall, European startups posted a pretty good quarter, showing an increase in late...
The Crunchbase rankings of active startup investors looked quite different in the second quarter of 2024 compared to a year ago. New names joined the...
Funding to North American startups rose 30% quarter-over-quarter, driven by big rounds for artificial intelligence-focused companies. Early-stage...
Funding to Latin America startups continued to slow this year, as a peak-era investment surge looks increasingly short-lived.
Venture funding for cybersecurity dropped to just slightly more than $1.6 billion in the just completed second quarter, marking its lowest point...
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In the second quarter, investors put $31.8 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian startups, per preliminary Crunchbase...
![Illustration of a guy watering plants with a blocked hose - Global [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/quarterly-global-3-300x168.jpg)
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