{"id":946571,"date":"2025-07-15T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946571"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:15:37","slug":"vc-funds-flow-into-ai-but-only-to-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/15\/vc-funds-flow-into-ai-but-only-to-a-few\/","title":{"rendered":"VC funds flow into AI, but only to a few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI has emerged as a strong magnet for venture capital in 2025, attracting a substantial 53% of all global VC funding in the first half of the year, the latest data from PitchBook shows. This figure is even higher at 64% for US based companies. <\/p>\n<p>While the numbers suggest that the AI investment wave is far from slowing, market observers have cautioned over the increasing concentration of capital in a small group of companies\u2014largely American. For instance, in Q2, over one-third of all US venture dollars were allocated to just five firms. Himanshi Lohchab breaks down the sharp rise and growing skew in AI funding trends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI has emerged as a strong magnet for venture capital in 2025, attracting a substantial 53% of all global VC funding in the first half of the year, the latest data from PitchBook shows. This figure is even higher at 64% for US based companies. While the numbers suggest that the AI investment wave is far from slowing, market observers have cautioned over the increasing concentration of capital in a small group of companies\u2014largely American. For instance, in Q2, over one-third of all US venture dollars were allocated to just five firms. Himanshi Lohchab breaks down the sharp rise and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946571","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}