1、State of VentureGlobal|Q1 2026Global data and analysis on dealmaking,funding,and exits by private market venture companies 2026 CB Insights|2Insights are good.Action is better.We track and compare the worlds companies.Our AI agents keep you a step ahead of competitors and disruption.Trusted by the w
2、orlds smartest companies:Every big tech company.Every top professional services firm.26 of the top 30 banks.All ten Fortune 10 companies.Put our AI agents to work today.IIIIIIStart free trial 2026 CB Insights|3Go Deeper.All the data behind this report is live on the CB Insights platform.Filter it,do
3、wnload it,build your own analysis.IIIIIIExplore the dataTL;DR 2026 CB Insights|4Your rundown onventure in Q126$286BHighest quarterlyfunding ever.Quarterly venture funding hit a record$285.5B in Q126 but 43%came from a single deal:OpenAIs$122B raise.Strip that out and$163.5B remains,still the stronge
4、st quarter since Q122.Meanwhile,quarterly deal count fell to 6,598 the lowest since Q416 and 61%down from the Q122 peak.Capital is concentrating into fewer and larger bets.See the data 842Average Mosaicfor the top market.Transformer-optimized ASICs lead all CB Insights tech markets with an 842 avera
5、ge Mosaic score and 352%two-year headcount growth.Hard tech fills many of the remaining top 10 spots,including defense AI copilots,counter-space weapons,and neutral-atom quantum computing.Momentum is shifting from software to the physical layer.See the data-15%QoQ decline inglobal exits.Global exits
6、 fell to their lowest level in nearly 2 years,but the contraction was most severe in Asia and Europe,where exit counts fell 25%and 21%,respectively.The US saw just a 2%decline.AIs share of US M&A and IPO exits surpassed 15%to hit a new high,while AI M&A deals remained near record levels.The exit mar