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Startup Funding Trends

Announced rounds, M&A, IPOs and SEC Form D filings by month · stats for the latest complete month: Sep vs Aug (periods close at 16:00 UTC) · browse every deal →

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Early data: news coverage since 2025-10-23, SEC Form D filings since 2026-04-01 (987 events in this view). Form D filings are primary-source records of private offerings by operating companies (funds and real-estate vehicles excluded); their amount is the amount already sold. Non-USD amounts are converted at fixed rates. Percent changes on small samples are indicative only.
Funding events · Sep
187↑ 25%
Prior month: 150
Disclosed amount
$5.87B↑ 126%
176 disclosed · prior $2.60B · excl. M&A
SF Bay Area
25↑ 25%
13% of events · prior 20
Most active sector
Enterprise Software
140 events
Fastest-rising sector
Enterprise Software
118 → 140 events
Most active lead investor
Vertex Ventures SEA & India
Led 1 deal (many ties)

Rising sectors and rounds

Events: prior month → latest complete month

  • Form Dround150 → 184↑ 23%
  • Enterprise Softwaresector118 → 140↑ 19%
  • Healthcaresector32 → 44↑ 38%
  • Fintechsector0 → 2n/a
  • Series C+round0 → 2n/a
  • AIsector0 → 1n/a

Falling sectors and rounds

Events: prior month → latest complete month

Nothing falling yet.

By sector

Enterprise Software↑ 19%
Latest 140 · prior 118
Share since May54% now
Healthcare↑ 38%
Latest 44 · prior 32
Share since May18% now
Fintechn/a
Latest 2 · prior 0
Share since May3% now
AIn/a
Latest 1 · prior 0
Share since May16% now
Robotics/Hardwaren/a
Latest 0 · prior 0
Share since May1% now
Consumern/a
Latest 0 · prior 0
Share since May2% now
Crypto/Web3n/a
Latest 0 · prior 0
Share since May1% now
Othern/a
Latest 0 · prior 0
Share since May5% now

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The latest month in brief

In the month of Sep (latest complete month, periods close at 16:00 UTC), Midu tracked 187 US funding events (announced rounds, M&A, IPOs and SEC Form D filings by operating companies), versus 150 the month before. 176 disclosed an amount, totaling about $5.87B (converted to USD at fixed rates; Form D counts amount already sold), compared with $2.60B the month before. 25 of them (13%) were based in the SF Bay Area. The most active sector was Enterprise Software with 140 events. The most frequent lead investor was Vertex Ventures SEA & India (1 deal). News coverage starts 2025-10-23 and Form D data starts 2026-04-01; samples are still small, so treat trends as indicative.

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