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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 (52 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
6↓ 14%
Prior week: 7
Disclosed amount
$185.6M↓ 28%
5 disclosed · prior $257.6M · excl. M&A
SF Bay Area
6↓ 14%
100% of events · prior 7
Most active sector
Enterprise Software
5 events
Fastest-rising sector
AI
0 → 1 events
Most active lead investor
Striker Venture Partners
Led 1 deal (many ties)

Rising sectors and rounds

Events: prior week → latest complete week

  • Seed/Angelround0 → 2n/a
  • AIsector0 → 1n/a

Falling sectors and rounds

Events: prior week → latest complete week

  • Form Dround7 → 4↓ 43%
  • Healthcaresector2 → 0↓ 100%

By sector

Enterprise Software 0%
Latest 5 · prior 5
Share since Aug 24–Aug 3036% now
AIn/a
Latest 1 · prior 0
Share since Aug 24–Aug 3043% now
Healthcare↓ 100%
Latest 0 · prior 2
Share since Aug 24–Aug 307% now
Fintechn/a
Latest 0 · prior 0
Share since Aug 24–Aug 307% now
Othern/a
Latest 0 · prior 0
Share since Aug 24–Aug 307% 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 6 SF Bay Area funding events (announced rounds, M&A, IPOs and SEC Form D filings by operating companies), versus 7 the week before. 5 disclosed an amount, totaling about $185.6M (converted to USD at fixed rates; Form D counts amount already sold), compared with $257.6M the week before. The most active sector was Enterprise Software with 5 events, while AI grew fastest (0 → 1). The largest reported rounds were Ghost ($11.0M, Seed/Angel), Hilt ($4.2M, Seed/Angel). The most frequent lead investor was Striker Venture Partners (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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