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Markets2026-07-25 · source-backed
Crunchbase reported GC participated in 12 fintech rounds of $5M+ in Q2 2026 against YC's 11, even though YC still crushes on total deal count, 41 to 13. That gap is the story: YC's volume concentrates at pre-seed while GC writes growth checks, and the crossover at the $5M+ line suggests fintech capital is consolidating upward. Global fintech raised $28.6B in H1 2026, up 22.7% YoY but down 17.3% from H2 2025's $34.6B, with Ramp's $750M Series F at $50B+ the largest round.
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Crunchbase counts 440 deals closing in the first half and fewer than 100 since, with OpenAI at 8 acquisitions this year and at least 19 lifetime, and Anthropic at 5 or more including Coefficient Bio at $400 million. Databricks, Cyera, Harvey and Legora appear as repeat acquire...
Top 1% of companies captured one-third of all capital. Nearly two-thirds went to deals over $500M. Top five AI unicorns (OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Scale) collectively worth more than $1.2T — exceeding all dot-com-era IPOs combined. Two functionally separate VC market...
ICONIQ led, Rillet's third raise in 14 months, past $200M total, with Sequoia, a16z and Oak HC/FT returning. The pitch is that legacy ERP was built for humans to key in and check data, so Rillet runs hundreds of agent operations at once inside a real-time general ledger and ha...
Simon Willison pulled the numbers out of an FT report sourced to "people with knowledge of the matter": Anthropic's annualized revenue reached $65bn in July, up from $47bn in May. Six thousand customers spend $100,000 or more a year. The company told investors it expects a pro...
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The Ramp/EconLab AI Index for August shows Anthropic's flagship capturing 6% of tokens purchased and 11.4% of dollars spent across Anthropic models, at roughly $10 per 1M tokens, about 2x GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol is 25% of OpenAI tokens and 23% of spend, generating roughly 33% more mo...
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