Daily edition

Wednesday 17 September 2025

37 rounds and $1.5B raised. The biggest: Groq, $750M.

vs Wed 10 Sept

The day in charts

AI took 83% of the capital on this day, up from 25% on Wed 10 Sept. Groq alone raised $750M, 51% of it.

The 5 biggest rounds raised $1.1B, 72% of the total.

2 of 37 rounds made 57% of the capital.

Rounds of $100M or more, Wednesday 17 September 2025
	Rounds	Capital
$100M or more	2	$850M
The rest	35	$632M

AI raised $1.2B, 83% of the capital. Choose a sector to filter the rounds below.

Capital by sector, Wednesday 17 September 2025
Sector	Capital	Share	Rounds
AI	$1.2B	83%	17
Other	$87.9M	6%	4
Health	$72.3M	5%	3
Climate & Energy	$19.5M	1%	2
Cybersecurity	$18.9M	1%	1
Enterprise software	$16M	1%	3
Robotics & Hardware	$12.1M	<1%	2
Consumer	$8.6M	<1%	3
Web3	$6.9M	<1%	1
Fintech	$3M	<1%	1

United States raised $1.1B, 74% of the capital. Rounds in 17 countries, 1 with no country disclosed.

Seed was the most common stage: 17 rounds, median $5.5M. The median round size is under each column.

Santa Clara raised $100M, more than all of Asia ($86.6M). Rounds from 17 cities.

This day against the 13 days before it. The biggest: Tue 9 Sept, $2.9B.

Capital raised per day, Wednesday 17 September 2025
Day	Rounds	Capital	Biggest round
Thu 4 Sept	44	$1.3B	Sierra, $350M
Fri 5 Sept	11	$284M	Baseten, $150M
Sat 6 Sept	1	$453K	Dectrocel, $453K
Sun 7 Sept	2	$10.4M	Indrajaal, $5.4M
Mon 8 Sept	21	$1.6B	Databricks, $1B
Tue 9 Sept	35	$2.9B	Mistral AI, $2B
Wed 10 Sept	33	$2.2B	PsiQuantum, $1B
Thu 11 Sept	21	$191M	Diana Health, $55M
Fri 12 Sept	7	$232M	Apex, $200M
Sat 13 Sept	0	$0K
Sun 14 Sept	0	$0K
Mon 15 Sept	25	$1.1B	Divergent Technologies, $250M
Tue 16 Sept	45	$2.1B	Figure, $1B
Wed 17 Sept	37	$1.5B	Groq, $750M