PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

<a href="https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/09/pitchbook-us-venture-funding-hits-412-7b-first-half-ai-deals-dominate/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260709/i34.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260709/p34#a260709p34" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Duncan Riley / <a href="http://siliconangle.com/">SiliconANGLE</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/09/pitchbook-us-venture-funding-hits-412-7b-first-half-ai-deals-dominate/">PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year &hellip; </p>