Tag: #vc-funding26 results
Earlybird Venture Capital closed its eighth early-stage fund at €360 million, its largest ever, with a deeptech-first thesis emphasizing AI infrastructure and foundation models. The oversubscribed fund brings the firm's total assets under management to €2.5 billion across strategies. It introduces a new perpetual ownership model.
US government will provide a version of Anthropic's Mythos model to federal agencies for cyber risk mitigation, despite ongoing legal disputes with the Pentagon. Separately, Sequoia Capital raised $7 billion for an AI expansion fund targeting firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Netflix's forecast and leadership change also weighed on shares.
Venture capital dealmaking hit a record $267 billion in Q1 2026. Nearly all investments poured into the AI race, per PitchBook data. The report underscores AI's total dominance in the funding landscape.
Bluerun Ventures secured 3.9 billion RMB to invest heavily in early-stage AI and hard tech projects. This fundraising brings their total assets under management to nearly 200 billion RMB.
Air Street Capital has raised $232 million, marking Europe's largest solo general partner (GP) fund. This challenges the traditional European VC norm favoring partnerships and large teams. Nathan Benaich's firm highlights a shift toward solo-led funds in AI investing.
Sequoia Capital closed $7B for its largest-ever late-stage expansion strategy fund, nearly doubling its 2022 equivalent. Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, new co-stewards, frame it as their AI era statement. The fund targets growth-stage investments.
Credo Ventures, based in Prague and Krakow, has closed its $88M fifth fund, Credo Stage 5, in a single closing. The fund doubles down on pre-seed investments for ambitious founders in Central and Eastern Europe and its diaspora, with cheque sizes of $1-5M and a six-partner team. Early portfolio successes include UiPath and ElevenLabs.
Warsaw-based Montis Capital raised €50M at first close for Montis VC, backed by the European Investment Fund and Polish Development Fund. The fund targets 20-25 pre-seed and seed investments in European startups focused on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. It aims at the intersection of these high-impact sectors.
Zhejiang University-incubated startup Logical Qubit completed two funding rounds totaling hundreds of millions RMB. This amounts to tens of millions USD. It signals growing VC interest in superconducting quantum computing as the frontier beyond AI.
Paris-based VC Elaia has closed its third deep-tech seed fund, DTS3, at €134 million. This exceeds the €120 million target set at the first close in March 2024. The fund is backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL.