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Crunchbase: Largest Recent Seed Rounds Are All AI — 40%+ of Early-Stage Funding Now Goes to $100M+ Rounds
Crunchbase reported March 31 that over 40% of global seed and Series A funding in 2026 goes to rounds of $100M+ (exceeding 50% in the US). At least 27 seed rounds globally have exceeded $100M since early 2025, up from rare occurrences. The largest: Advanced Machine Intelligence ($1.03B — biggest European seed ever, co-founded by Yann LeCun), Humans& ($480M), Unconventional AI ($475M for energy-efficient neural silicon), Periodic Labs ($300M for AI materials science), and Sam Altman's Merge Labs ($252M for brain-computer interfaces). Physical AI dominates mega-seeds.
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