{"id":982782,"date":"2025-12-31T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982782"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:30:49","slug":"ai-funding-defies-start-up-slowdown-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/31\/ai-funding-defies-start-up-slowdown-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"AI funding defies start-up slowdown in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as venture capital inflows into startups levelled off this year, artificial intelligence (AI) firms emerged as a clear outlier, drawing sharply higher investor interest. Data from Venture Intelligence showed funding into AI-focused startups rose nearly 60% year-on-year to $1.24 billion in 2025, from $773 million in 2024, underscoring the sector\u2019s resilience amid a broader funding slowdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as venture capital inflows into startups levelled off this year, artificial intelligence (AI) firms emerged as a clear outlier, drawing sharply higher investor interest. Data from Venture Intelligence showed funding into AI-focused startups rose nearly 60% year-on-year to $1.24 billion in 2025, from $773 million in 2024, underscoring the sector\u2019s resilience amid a broader funding slowdown.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982782","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=982782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}