{"id":947546,"date":"2025-07-18T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947546"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:14:53","slug":"us-ai-startups-see-funding-surge-while-more-vc-funds-struggle-to-raise-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/us-ai-startups-see-funding-surge-while-more-vc-funds-struggle-to-raise-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"US AI startups see funding surge while more VC funds struggle to raise, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, even as venture capital firms struggled to raise money, a report from PitchBook on Tuesday showed. <\/p>\n<p>Startup funding in the first six months of 2025 jumped to $162.8 billion, marking the strongest performance since the same period in 2021 &#8211; the historic peak for venture capital activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, even as venture capital firms struggled to raise money, a report from PitchBook on Tuesday showed. Startup funding in the first six months of 2025 jumped to $162.8 billion, marking the strongest performance since the same period in 2021 &#8211; the historic peak for venture capital activity.<\/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-947546","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\/947546","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=947546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}