Daily edition

Wednesday 20 August 2025

31 rounds and $1.6B raised. The biggest: Group14 Technologies, $463M.

vs Wed 13 Aug

The day in charts

AI took 52% of the capital on this day, up from 29% on Wed 13 Aug. $1.6B in all, 7.2 times the total on Wed 13 Aug.

The 5 biggest rounds raised $1.2B, 75% of the total.

4 of 31 rounds made 71% of the capital.

Rounds of $100M or more, Wednesday 20 August 2025
	Rounds	Capital
$100M or more	4	$1.1B
The rest	27	$466M

AI raised $833M, 52% of the capital. Choose a sector to filter the rounds below.

Capital by sector, Wednesday 20 August 2025
Sector	Capital	Share	Rounds
AI	$833M	52%	16
Climate & Energy	$464M	29%	2
Enterprise software	$212M	13%	3
Health	$49.7M	3%	2
Other	$20.9M	1%	3
Fintech	$11.1M	<1%	2
Consumer	$4.2M	<1%	2
Robotics & Hardware	$2.5M	<1%	1

United States raised $1.4B, 86% of the capital. Rounds in 13 countries.

Y Combinator joined 3 rounds, more than any other investor.

Seed was the most common stage: 10 rounds, median $2.5M. The median round size is under each column.

Irvine raised $314M, more than all of Asia ($139M). Rounds from 11 cities.

This day against the 13 days before it. The biggest day of the two weeks.

Capital raised per day, Wednesday 20 August 2025
Day	Rounds	Capital	Biggest round
Thu 7 Aug	22	$795M	Strand Therapeutics, $153M
Fri 8 Aug	6	$29.6M	Monato, $13M
Sat 9 Aug	0	$0K
Sun 10 Aug	2	$85M	Truemeds, $65M
Mon 11 Aug	19	$606M	Aira, $174M
Tue 12 Aug	37	$487M	1Kosmos, $47M
Wed 13 Aug	18	$222M	Appcharge, $58M
Thu 14 Aug	19	$792M	Cohere, $500M
Fri 15 Aug	3	$3M	Grand PMS, $1.8M
Sat 16 Aug	0	$0K
Sun 17 Aug	0	$0K
Mon 18 Aug	19	$285M	IVIX, $60M
Tue 19 Aug	28	$704M	Weaver Services, $170M
Wed 20 Aug	31	$1.6B	Group14 Technologies, $463M