Daily edition

Thursday 16 October 2025

36 rounds and $2.4B raised. The biggest: Chobani, $650M.

vs Thu 9 Oct

The day in charts

Consumer took 27% of the capital on this day, after none on Thu 9 Oct. $2.4B in all, down 13% on Thu 9 Oct.

The 5 biggest rounds raised $1.6B, 67% of the total.

7 of 36 rounds made 78% of the capital.

Rounds of $100M or more, Thursday 16 October 2025
	Rounds	Capital
$100M or more	7	$1.9B
The rest	29	$522M

Consumer raised $650M, 27% of the capital. Choose a sector to filter the rounds below.

Capital by sector, Thursday 16 October 2025
Sector	Capital	Share	Rounds
Consumer	$650M	27%	1
AI	$414M	17%	17
Enterprise software	$391M	16%	4
Climate & Energy	$349M	15%	1
Health	$272M	11%	2
Fintech	$208M	9%	4
Cybersecurity	$54M	2%	2
Robotics & Hardware	$52.9M	2%	4
Other	$1.4M	<1%	1

United States raised $1.6B, 68% of the capital. Rounds in 13 countries.

Ribbit Capital joined 2 rounds, leading 1, more than any other investor.

Seed was the most common stage: 12 rounds, median $5.4M. The median round size is under each column.

San Francisco raised $500M, more than all of Asia ($124M). Rounds from 19 cities.

This day against the 13 days before it. The biggest: Thu 9 Oct, $2.7B.

Capital raised per day, Thursday 16 October 2025
Day	Rounds	Capital	Biggest round
Fri 3 Oct	7	$172M	Supabase, $100M
Sat 4 Oct	0	$0K
Sun 5 Oct	1	$821K	Komu (ex-Contestio), $821K
Mon 6 Oct	22	$347M	NanoPhoria Bioscience, $97.5M
Tue 7 Oct	34	$2.6B	Polymarket, $2B
Wed 8 Oct	32	$2B	Base Power, $1B
Thu 9 Oct	30	$2.7B	Reflection AI, $2B
Fri 10 Oct	12	$484M	Kalshi, $300M
Sat 11 Oct	0	$0K
Sun 12 Oct	0	$0K
Mon 13 Oct	19	$266M	Ecorobotix, $105M
Tue 14 Oct	40	$2.7B	Oura, $900M
Wed 15 Oct	35	$997M	Tubulis, $358M
Thu 16 Oct	36	$2.4B	Chobani, $650M