We provide a look at October’s most-active investor rankings in closer detail across four metrics: active venture investors, lead backers, high spenders and seed dealmakers.
Seed funding
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We spoke to Feyza Haskaraman, who is joining Felicis Ventures as a partner to focus on investing in “soon-to-break-out” AI infrastructure...
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The overarching theme from our third-quarter market reports was that venture funding has most definitely rebounded since the 2022 correction, but...
In total, investors put just over $3.3 billion globally into seed- through growth-stage rounds for cybersecurity-focused companies, per Crunchbase...
Where are seed- and early-stage AI investors placing their bets? To answer this question, we analyzed a dataset of AI-focused startups that raised at...
We took a look at Q3 2025's busiest lead dealmakers, highest spenders, and top venture and seed backers, and found that established leaders among...
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Asia’s startup funding rose sequentially in the third quarter, boosted by a handful of hardtech-focused megarounds that led to a 20% increase from...
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All told, European startups pulled in $13.1 billion across more than 1,000 deals last quarter, flat quarter over quarter but up 22% year over year...
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Global venture funding gained significantly in Q3 2025, closing up 38% year over year, Crunchbase data shows, as massive funding deals, particularly...
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Using Crunchbase data, we put together a sample list of 15 recently launched venture investors that are leading good-sized rounds, most of which have...
In today’s hyper-competitive VC landscape, small funds can still win — but only by changing their approach, writes Flint Capital GP Andrew Gershfeld...
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