{"id":999986,"date":"2026-03-30T08:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999986"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:03:13","slug":"ai-funding-fewer-deals-larger-cheques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/30\/ai-funding-fewer-deals-larger-cheques\/","title":{"rendered":"AI funding: Fewer deals, larger cheques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture funding in artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a phase of concentration, with the capital increasingly flowing into a smaller set of large, infrastructure-led bets even as the overall deal activity remains broad-based at the early stage. <\/p>\n<p>Data from Tracxn captures the shift starkly. Just 14 AI startups raised $674 million in the first quarter of 2026\u2014almost matching the $888-million raised by 124 companies through all of 2025. Strip away the headline number, and the concentration becomes even clearer: a single company \u2013 Neysa \u2014 accounted for roughly $600 million of this year\u2019s funding, backed by investors including Blackstone, Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan and Nexus Venture Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture funding in artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a phase of concentration, with the capital increasingly flowing into a smaller set of large, infrastructure-led bets even as the overall deal activity remains broad-based at the early stage. Data from Tracxn captures the shift starkly. Just 14 AI startups raised $674 million in the first quarter of 2026\u2014almost matching the $888-million raised by 124 companies through all of 2025. Strip away the headline number, and the concentration becomes even clearer: a single company \u2013 Neysa \u2014 accounted for roughly $600 million of this year\u2019s funding, backed by investors including Blackstone, Ontario [&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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999986","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\/999986","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=999986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}