If you believed that Artificial Intelligence It was a fashion, with this data your perception will change. In what we are going to 2025los Risk capital investors They have established a New randcord By investing in AI Startups 192.7 billion dollars. Directing more than half of the capital to this technology, according to Lizette Chapman and Yahoo Finance.
«Most of the capital went to consolidated startups (Anthropic and XAI collected billions of dollars this quarter), while other less known startups had difficulties, especially companies not specialized in AI. The consequence of a restrictive environment for departures and acquisitions has also caused some risk investors to be reluctant to bet on companies without experience, ”according to PitchBook.
«Let’s look where we look, the market is fork,» he said Kyle Sanford, Pitchbook research director. «Either you dedicate yourself to AI, or not. Either you are a great company, or not.»
In the most recent quarter, US risk capital funds They allocated the 62.7% of their investment to artificial intelligence companies, while global investors They allocated the 53.2%.
In total, venture capital operations totaled 366.8 billion dollars So far this year, with a growing proportion of that investment in the US 250.200 million dollars.
While some AI companies are charging large sums, the general panorama for startups is more discouraging. The total number of companies that will obtain venture capital financing worldwide in 2025 is on its way to being the lowest in years, as well as the number of venture capital companies that raise new funds.
Worldwide, 823 Risk capital funds have raised more than 80,000 million dollars So far this year, which represents a drastic decrease with respect to 2022when 4,430 funds Risk capital raised around 412,000 million dollarsaccording to pitchbook data.
«The risk fund sponsors and the partners of risk capital companies are being more deliberate about where they are putting their money,» said Sanford, «and are focusing on AI.»