{"id":3108563,"date":"2026-04-01T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=3108563"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:11:16","slug":"startup-funding-shatters-all-records-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/01\/startup-funding-shatters-all-records-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup funding shatters all records in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Global investing in startups hit $297 billion in Q1 2026, breaking all records, according to new <a href=\"https:\/\/news.crunchbase.com\/venture\/record-breaking-funding-ai-global-q1-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Crunchbase data<\/a>. That&#8217;s a massive 2.5x increase over the $118 billion raised in the previous quarter. This single-quarter haul outpaces every full year of global VC activity prior to 2019.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unprecedented spike was fueled by just four behemoth deals, each a record-breaker in its own right.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/31\/openai-not-yet-public-raises-3b-from-retail-investors-in-monster-122b-fund-raise\/\">announced<\/a> that it is now valued at $852 billion after collecting $122 billion, surpassing the previous record for the largest funding round ever, also held by OpenAI when the ChatGPT maker raised <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/31\/openai-raises-40b-at-300b-post-money-valuation\/\">$40 billion<\/a> a year ago.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The quarter also saw <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/12\/anthropic-raises-another-30-billion-in-series-g-with-a-new-value-of-380-billion\/\">Anthropic<\/a>, its main rival, raise $30 billion at a valuation of $380 billion. That funding haul effectively made it the third-largest VC round on record. The other two mega-deals of the quarter included a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/06\/xai-says-it-raised-20b-in-series-e-funding\/\">$20 billion<\/a> fundraise by xAI and Waymo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/02\/waymo-raises-16-billion-round-to-scale-robotaxi-fleet-london-tokyo\/\">$16 billion<\/a> round.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These four rounds collectively raised $188 billion, accounting for more than 63% of total funding in the quarter. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it might appear that without them, fundraising appears to be on a more typical trajectory, anecdotal evidence implies otherwise. 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