Kyle Rizdahl
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first heard Jan 2026
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Last year, $340 or so billion of capital was ventured.
That's at least $100 billion more than in any of the previous three years.
The data comes courtesy of PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association.
So where have all those VCs been hiding and who's getting their money now?
Here's Marketplace's Daniel Ackerman.
The last spike in venture capital funding was back in the low interest rate, easy money days of 2021.
Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School says it was like... A drunken frenzy where venture capitalists gave a lot of money to a lot of people at very high valuations.
But he says after any wild party... It's inevitable you're going to have a hangover.
in the last three years, have definitely been that of a hangover.
Now though, the VC spending party is back on.
And Seth Kaplan of the University of Chicago says you'll be shocked, just shocked, to learn where all that money is going.
Not surprisingly, it's AI.
Half of all VC dollars last year went to just 0.05% of all VC deals.
The money got hoovered up by the handful of firms building the most powerful AI models, like the ones developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and XAI.
Shiloh Tilleman-Dick is with the National Venture Capital Association.
Tillman-Dick says venture capital has long been something of a winner-take-all industry, but the level of concentration right now?
I think this is unusual.
He says one reason, besides just the general hype around AI, is that it does require a good deal of capital.
And this VC AI spending spree is likely to continue, says Steve Kaplan of the University of Chicago, because the stock market is strong and interest rates are on their way down.
In those situations, you tend to see venture capital spending being robust.
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