Weekly edition

Week 19, 2026 (4 May to 10 May)

42 rounds and $4.7B raised. The biggest: Ineffable, $1.1B.

Compared with week 18

Average of the 4 weeks before: 43 rounds, $5.8B a week. This week is -19% on capital.

The week in charts

AI took 57% of the capital this week, about the same as in week 18. $4.7B in all, up 31% on week 18.

8 of 42 rounds made 82% of the capital.

Rounds of $100M or more, Week 19, 2026 (4 May to 10 May)
	Rounds	Capital
$100M or more	8	$3.8B
The rest	34	$821M

The busiest day: Thu 7 May, $1.4B across 10 rounds.

Capital raised per day, Week 19, 2026 (4 May to 10 May)
Day	Rounds	Capital	Biggest round
Mon 4 May	6	$988M	Sierra, $950M
Tue 5 May	13	$972M	Blitzy, $200M
Wed 6 May	9	$196M	Tessera Labs, $60M
Thu 7 May	10	$1.4B	Kalshi, $1B
Fri 8 May	3	$1.1B	Ineffable, $1.1B
Sat 9 May	0	$0K
Sun 10 May	1	$1.6M	Hakim Health, $1.6M

AI raised $2.7B, 57% of the capital. Choose a sector to filter the rounds below.

Capital by sector, Week 19, 2026 (4 May to 10 May)
Sector	Capital	Share	Rounds
AI	$2.7B	57%	16
Other	$1B	22%	6
Robotics & Hardware	$464M	10%	5
Enterprise software	$234M	5%	7
Climate & Energy	$98.8M	2%	2
Health	$87.5M	2%	3
Fintech	$72.4M	2%	2
Cybersecurity	$4M	<1%	1

The 10 biggest rounds raised $4B, 86% of the total.

42 companies raised $4.7B. A bigger tile is a bigger round.

Andreessen Horowitz joined 4 rounds, leading 3, more than any other investor.

Ranked by rounds joined so far. Lightspeed Venture Partners finished first with 11 rounds over the last 8 weeks. The lead changed hands twice.

Rounds joined so far, the last 8 weeks
Investor	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17	Week 18	Week 19
Lightspeed Venture Partners	0	3	5	6	6	7	10	11
General Catalyst	1	3	4	5	5	5	8	10
Sequoia Capital	1	2	2	2	2	2	5	9
Accel	2	3	5	6	6	6	9	9
NVIDIA	0	1	1	3	3	4	5	8

United Kingdom raised $1.3B, 27% of the capital. Rounds in 6 countries, 33 with no country disclosed.

London raised $1.4B, more than all of North America ($1B). Rounds from 15 cities.

Seed was the most common stage: 7 rounds, median $7M. The median round size is under each column.

Biggest gain: AI, +$645M. Biggest drop: Cybersecurity, -$705M. Change in capital raised. Only where both periods have rounds.

Sectors against week 18
Sectors	Week 19, 2026 (4 May to 10 May)	week 18	Change
Other	$1B	$186M	+$858M
AI	$2.7B	$2B	+$645M
Robotics & Hardware	$464M	$82M	+$382M
Enterprise software	$234M	$75.8M	+$159M
Climate & Energy	$98.8M	$58.1M	+$40.7M
Fintech	$72.4M	$102M	-$29.6M
Health	$87.5M	$339M	-$251M
Cybersecurity	$4M	$709M	-$705M