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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 →

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Early data: news coverage since 2025-10-23, SEC Form D filings since 2026-04-01 (331 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 · Oct 5–Oct 11
43↓ 2%
Prior week: 44
Disclosed amount
$428.3M↓ 22%
40 disclosed · prior $547.7M · excl. M&A
SF Bay Area
4↓ 43%
9% of events · prior 7
Most active sector
Enterprise Software
34 events
Fastest-rising sector
Enterprise Software
30 → 34 events
Most active lead investor
Vertex Ventures SEA & India
Led 1 deal (many ties)

Rising sectors and rounds

Events: prior week → latest complete week

  • Enterprise Softwaresector30 → 34↑ 13%
  • Robotics/Hardwaresector0 → 1n/a
  • Series Around0 → 1n/a

Falling sectors and rounds

Events: prior week → latest complete week

  • Healthcaresector14 → 8↓ 43%
  • Form Dround44 → 42↓ 5%

By sector

Enterprise Software↑ 13%
Latest 34 · prior 30
Share since Aug 24–Aug 3069% now
Healthcare↓ 43%
Latest 8 · prior 14
Share since Aug 24–Aug 3025% now
Robotics/Hardwaren/a
Latest 1 · prior 0
Share since Aug 24–Aug 300% now
AIn/a
Latest 0 · prior 0
Share since Aug 24–Aug 306% now

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The latest week in brief

In the week of Oct 5–Oct 11 (latest complete week, periods close at 16:00 UTC), Midu tracked 43 SEC Form D filings by operating companies, versus 44 the week before. 40 disclosed an amount, totaling about $428.3M (converted to USD at fixed rates; Form D counts amount already sold), compared with $547.7M the week before. 4 of them (9%) were based in the SF Bay Area. The most active sector was Enterprise Software with 34 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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