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1、Venture Pulse Q1 2026Global analysis of venture fundingKPMG.Make the Difference.April 15,20262#Q1VC 2026 Copyright owned by one or more of the KPMG International entities.KPMG International entities provide no services to clients.All rights reserved.Welcome messageWelcome to the Q126 edition of KPMG

2、 Private Enterprises Venture Pulse a quarterly report highlighting the major trends,opportunities,and challenges across the venture capital market globally and in key jurisdictions around the world.Global VC investment more than doubled quarter-over-quarter,rising from$128.6 billion in Q425 to$330.9

3、 billion during Q126.The total soared past the record set in Q421($210.8 billion)a quarter once viewed as a nearly unmatchable outlier.That said,the current surge in VC funding was largely driven by a handful of multi-billion-dollar raises by AI-focused companies.Five US-based companies together acc

4、ounted for$188.6 billion of total global VC investment,led by a record-breaking$122 billion raise by OpenAI,a$30 billion raise by Anthropic,and a$20 billion raise by xAI all LLM-focused AI firms.While the Americas attracted 82%of all VC investment globally during Q126($270.1 billion)driven primarily

5、 by activity in the US,both Europe and Asia also saw very solid starts to the year.Europe attracted$25.7 billion in Q126,led by six$1 billion+funding rounds(Nscale$2 billion,Neura Robotics$1.8 billion,Wayve$1.5 billion,Cloover$1.2 billion,Advanced Machine Intelligence$1 billion,and Kraken Technologi

6、es$1 billion).Asia,meanwhile,saw$33.6 billion in funding during Q126,led by$1 billion+funding rounds in two different jurisdictions:a$2 billion raise by Chinas Rokid and a$2 billion raise by Singapore-based DayOne.At a sector level,AI continued to be the predominant theme for VC investment during Q1