A Record 14 Billion-Dollar Rounds In July Pushed Venture's Historic Run Higher
Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July. Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year over year, as the month notched the highest-ever number of billion-dollar venture rounds on record, per Crunchbase data. Gené Teare Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July.
Key Takeaways
- July ranked as the third-largest funding month of the year, up 10% over June, following on the heels of a record-breaking first half of 2026 , when startups raised $515 billion globally.
Fourteen startups raised billion-dollar rounds in July, the highest count in a single month, though not the largest amount raised in such deals, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows.
- 8 billion for short-video generation.
Two Germany-based companies in defense tech also raised billion-dollar rounds: Helsing and Quantum Systems .
- Exits July was also a robust month for startup exits, including via acquisition and public-market debuts.
Venture-backed M&A totaled more than $9 billion in July, with five companies exiting at prices over $1 billion, Crunchbase data shows.
- The largest was Chinese chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies , which went public at around $85 billion and surged 466% on its debut .
Italy-based Bending Spoons , an acquirer of software companies including Evernote and AOL , went public at a value of $18.
- Related Crunchbase queries: Global Venture Funding In 2026 Global Venture Funding To AI Startups In 2026 Global IPOs For Venture-Backed Companies In 2026 Global M&A In 2026 For Venture-Backed Companies Methodology The data contained in this report comes directly from Crunchbase, and is based on reported data.
Stats & Key Facts
- #Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year over year, as the month notched the highest-ever number of billion-dollar venture rounds on record, per Crunchbase data.
- #Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year over year, as the month notched the highest-ever number of billion-dollar venture rounds on record, per Crunchbase data.
- #Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year over year, as the month notched the highest-ever number of billion-dollar venture rounds on record, per Crunchbase data.
- #July ranked as the third-largest funding month of the year, up 10% over June, following on the heels of a record-breaking first half of 2026 , when startups raised $515 billion globally.
Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year over year, as the month notched the highest-ever number of billion-dollar venture rounds on record, per Crunchbase data. July ranked as the third-largest funding month of the year, up 10% over June, following on the heels of a record-breaking first half of 2026 , when startups raised $515 billion globally. Fourteen startups raised billion-dollar rounds in July, the highest count in a single month, though not the largest amount raised in such deals, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows.
-based companies, two each from Germany and China, and one company headquartered in Singapore. The largest startup funding deal last month was a $10 billion investment in Blue Origin , the first external financing for the Jeff Bezos -founded space exploration company. Safe Superintelligence , a frontier lab founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever , reportedly raised $5 billion from Nvidia .
The next two largest deals were Beijing-based frontier lab Moonshot AI 's $3. 5 billion raise after releasing its latest Kimi K3 model, and Kling AI raising $2. 8 billion for short-video generation.
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