Weekly edition

Week 29, 2026 (13 Jul to 19 Jul)

46 rounds and $8B raised. The biggest: Helsing, $1.8B.

Compared with week 28

Average of the 4 weeks before: 51 rounds, $4.3B a week. This week is +84% on capital.

The week in charts

AI took 57% of the capital this week, up from 34% in week 28. $8B in all, up 175% on week 28.

16 of 46 rounds made 92% of the capital.

Rounds of $100M or more, Week 29, 2026 (13 Jul to 19 Jul)
	Rounds	Capital
$100M or more	16	$7.3B
The rest	30	$610M

The busiest day: Thu 16 Jul, $3.1B across 9 rounds.

Capital raised per day, Week 29, 2026 (13 Jul to 19 Jul)
Day	Rounds	Capital	Biggest round
Mon 13 Jul	8	$2B	Helsing, $1.8B
Tue 14 Jul	12	$1.3B	PixVerse, $439M
Wed 15 Jul	10	$1.4B	Neko Health, $699M
Thu 16 Jul	9	$3.1B	Fireworks, $1.5B
Fri 17 Jul	3	$24.3M	Cytronic, $13.5M
Sat 18 Jul	1	$40M	Greenjets, $40M
Sun 19 Jul	3	$173M	Emergent, $130M

AI raised $4.5B, 57% of the capital. Choose a sector to filter the rounds below.

Capital by sector, Week 29, 2026 (13 Jul to 19 Jul)
Sector	Capital	Share	Rounds
AI	$4.5B	57%	11
Health	$1.1B	14%	6
Consumer	$668M	8%	3
Fintech	$528M	7%	3
Robotics & Hardware	$509M	6%	6
Other	$449M	6%	12
Enterprise software	$160M	2%	3
Cybersecurity	$13M	<1%	1
Climate & Energy	$2.6M	<1%	1

The 10 biggest rounds raised $6.6B, 83% of the total.

46 companies raised $8B. A bigger tile is a bigger round.

Lightspeed Venture Partners joined 4 rounds, more than any other investor.

Ranked by rounds joined so far. Index Ventures finished first with 17 rounds over the last 8 weeks. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Rounds joined so far, the last 8 weeks
Investor	Week 22	Week 23	Week 24	Week 25	Week 26	Week 27	Week 28	Week 29
Index Ventures	2	3	5	6	8	12	14	17
Y Combinator	1	4	5	6	8	9	11	14
Sequoia Capital	2	3	4	4	9	11	11	13
General Catalyst	1	2	6	6	9	11	12	13
Lightspeed Venture Partners	0	2	4	4	7	8	8	12

Germany raised $1.8B, 23% of the capital. Rounds in 7 countries, 39 with no country disclosed.

Munich raised $1.8B, more than all of Asia ($52M). Rounds from 20 cities.

Seed was the most common stage: 15 rounds, median $4.2M. The median round size is under each column.

Biggest gain: AI, +$3.6B. Biggest drop: Climate & Energy, -$642M. Change in capital raised. Only where both periods have rounds.

Sectors against week 28
Sectors	Week 29, 2026 (13 Jul to 19 Jul)	week 28	Change
AI	$4.5B	$994M	+$3.6B
Health	$1.1B	$3.4M	+$1.1B
Consumer	$668M	$7M	+$661M
Fintech	$528M	$170M	+$358M
Robotics & Hardware	$509M	$198M	+$311M
Cybersecurity	$13M	$19.9M	-$6.9M
Enterprise software	$160M	$282M	-$122M
Other	$449M	$573M	-$124M
Climate & Energy	$2.6M	$645M	-$642M