Weekly edition

Week 36, 2026 (31 Aug to 6 Sept)

76 rounds and $3.9B raised. The biggest: Wonderful, $550M.

Compared with week 35

Average of the 4 weeks before: 67 rounds, $5.8B a week. This week is -33% on capital.

The week in charts

AI took 32% of the capital this week, about the same as in week 35. $3.9B in all, up 30% on week 35.

9 of 76 rounds made 68% of the capital.

Rounds of $100M or more, Week 36, 2026 (31 Aug to 6 Sept)
	Rounds	Capital
$100M or more	9	$2.7B
The rest	67	$1.3B

The busiest day: Wed 2 Sept, $1.6B across 18 rounds.

Capital raised per day, Week 36, 2026 (31 Aug to 6 Sept)
Day	Rounds	Capital	Biggest round
Mon 31 Aug	11	$610M	Polymarket, $300M
Tue 1 Sept	21	$955M	Tripo AI, $445M
Wed 2 Sept	18	$1.6B	Wonderful, $550M
Thu 3 Sept	17	$691M	Upwind, $300M
Fri 4 Sept	9	$85.7M	OpenReserve, $25M
Sat 5 Sept	0	$0K
Sun 6 Sept	0	$0K

AI raised $1.2B, 32% of the capital. Choose a sector to filter the rounds below.

Capital by sector, Week 36, 2026 (31 Aug to 6 Sept)
Sector	Capital	Share	Rounds
Other	$1.4B	35%	11
AI	$1.2B	32%	26
Health	$609M	15%	11
Cybersecurity	$340M	9%	2
Robotics & Hardware	$98.3M	2%	6
Enterprise software	$90.8M	2%	5
Climate & Energy	$85.9M	2%	5
Fintech	$65.3M	2%	6
Consumer	$36.8M	<1%	4

The 10 biggest rounds raised $2.7B, 70% of the total.

76 companies raised $3.9B. A bigger tile is a bigger round.

The 72 biggest of 76. Open on a wider screen for all of them, or see every round below.

Insight Partners joined 3 rounds, leading 2, more than any other investor.

Ranked by rounds joined so far. Y Combinator finished first with 21 rounds over the last 8 weeks. The lead changed hands twice.

Rounds joined so far, the last 8 weeks
Investor	Week 29	Week 30	Week 31	Week 32	Week 33	Week 34	Week 35	Week 36
Y Combinator	3	5	8	10	14	16	18	21
Andreessen Horowitz	0	3	3	8	9	12	12	13
Bessemer Venture Partners	1	4	4	6	8	10	10	12
Accel	2	5	6	7	9	10	11	12
NVIDIA	2	2	2	5	7	8	10	11

United States raised $905M, 23% of the capital. Rounds in 18 countries, 29 with no country disclosed.

Amsterdam raised $550M, more than all of Oceania ($8.2M). Rounds from 38 cities.

Seed was the most common stage: 16 rounds, median $9.2M. The median round size is under each column.

Biggest gain: Health, +$491M. Biggest drop: Fintech, -$591M. Change in capital raised. Only where both periods have rounds.

Sectors against week 35
Sectors	Week 36, 2026 (31 Aug to 6 Sept)	week 35	Change
Health	$609M	$118M	+$491M
Other	$1.4B	$977M	+$380M
Cybersecurity	$340M	$2.6M	+$337M
AI	$1.2B	$957M	+$292M
Robotics & Hardware	$98.3M	$64M	+$34.3M
Climate & Energy	$85.9M	$92.8M	-$6.9M
Enterprise software	$90.8M	$108M	-$17.4M
Consumer	$36.8M	$57.3M	-$20.5M
Fintech	$65.3M	$656M	-$591M

Biggest gain: Netherlands, +$542M. Biggest drop: United Kingdom, -$112M. Change in capital raised. Only where both periods have rounds.

Countries against week 35
Countries	Week 36, 2026 (31 Aug to 6 Sept)	week 35	Change
Netherlands	$550M	$7.7M	+$542M
Germany	$98.6M	$2.6M	+$96M
Saudi Arabia	$12.7M	$1.7M	+$11M
United States	$905M	$904M	+$700K
Switzerland	$37.6M	$40M	-$2.4M
Australia	$8.2M	$56M	-$47.8M
India	$136M	$220M	-$84.4M
United Kingdom	$11.9M	$124M	-$112M

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