{"id":1002804,"date":"2026-04-13T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002804"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:29:10","slug":"ai-boom-drives-global-vc-funding-to-record-300bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/13\/ai-boom-drives-global-vc-funding-to-record-300bn\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom drives global VC funding to record $300bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Global venture funding hit a record $300 billion in the Jan-March quarter, the highest ever for a single quarter, according to Crunchbase data. The surge, driven largely by artificial intelligence deals, has reignited the debate on whether venture markets are truly recovering or if capital is concentrating in a narrow set of companies.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80% of the funding went to AI startups, with four companies &#8211; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Waymo-accounting for about $188 billion, or roughly two-thirds of the total. The scale of these deals has lifted overall funding numbers, even as activity across the broader market remains uneven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Global venture funding hit a record $300 billion in the Jan-March quarter, the highest ever for a single quarter, according to Crunchbase data. The surge, driven largely by artificial intelligence deals, has reignited the debate on whether venture markets are truly recovering or if capital is concentrating in a narrow set of companies. Nearly 80% of the funding went to AI startups, with four companies &#8211; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Waymo-accounting for about $188 billion, or roughly two-thirds of the total. The scale of these deals has lifted overall funding numbers, even as activity across the broader market remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}