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OpenAI, Anthropic mega-rounds push VC to record

Crunchbase reports global startup funding hit a record $189 billion in February 2026, with AI startups taking roughly 90% of that capital. OpenAI’s $110 billion round, Anthropic’s $30 billion raise, and Waymo’s $16 billion round together accounted for 83% of the month’s total.

// ANALYSIS

This is less a broad startup boom and more an AI capital concentration event around a handful of compute-scale winners.

–Mega-rounds are pulling venture math away from early-stage signals and toward infrastructure-heavy bets.
–For AI developers, platform risk rises as tooling ecosystems cluster around a few dominant model vendors.
–The gap between frontier labs and everyone else is widening faster than revenue maturity in most AI app categories.

// TAGS

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DISCOVERED

38d ago

2026-03-05

PUBLISHED

39d ago

2026-03-03

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

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