If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs

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The new Pitchbook data shows the extent to which artificial intelligence dominates the startup investment, as it has become 2025 on-Track the first year when artificial intelligence represents more than half of the invested VC money.

Pitchbook reports that VCS has poured $ 192.7 billion in industry so far this year, out of a total of $ 366.8 billion, According to Bloomberg. In the last quarter, artificial intelligence accounted for 62.7 % of the money invested by the American VCS, and 53.2 % of the money invested by international companies.

Most of these funds will be offered names such as Antarbur, which announced Series of $ 13 billion f In September. Meanwhile, the number of startups and investment funds successfully in collecting money in their lowest levels in years – Pitchbook says that 823 passes were collected worldwide so far in 2025, compared to 4430 in 2022.

Kyle Sanford, Pitchbook, Bloomberg’s research director, told the market that the market has become “tight”, as “you are in artificial intelligence, or you are not” and “You are a big company, or you are not.”