Startup Funding Trends
Announced rounds, M&A, IPOs and SEC Form D filings by week · stats for the latest complete week: Oct 5–Oct 11 vs Sep 28–Oct 4 (periods close at 16:00 UTC) · browse every deal →
Rising sectors and rounds
Events: prior week → latest complete week
- AIsector3 → 13↑ 333%
- Seed/Angelround4 → 11↑ 175%
- Enterprise Softwaresector31 → 36↑ 16%
- Othersector1 → 6↑ 500%
- Series Around1 → 6↑ 500%
- Robotics/Hardwaresector0 → 3n/a
Falling sectors and rounds
Events: prior week → latest complete week
- Healthcaresector14 → 9↓ 36%
- Form Dround44 → 42↓ 5%
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In the week of Oct 5–Oct 11 (latest complete week, periods close at 16:00 UTC), Midu tracked 70 funding events (announced rounds, M&A, IPOs and SEC Form D filings by operating companies), versus 50 the week before. 63 disclosed an amount, totaling about $1.92B (converted to USD at fixed rates; Form D counts amount already sold), compared with $710.7M the week before. 6 of them (9%) were based in the SF Bay Area. The most active sector was Enterprise Software with 36 events, while AI grew fastest (3 → 13). The largest reported rounds were TypeSafe AI ($870.0M), Valon ($150.0M, Series C+), Tropic Biosciences ($105.0M, Series C+). The most frequent lead investor was Andreessen Horowitz (2 deals). 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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