Global financing of Venture amounted to $ 23 billion in April 2025, jagging 12 months on 12 months and decrease in a month to a month to month from $ 68 billion invested in March, Crunchbase The data show.
The total number of April funds means one of the slowest months last 12 months.
A slow month occurs after an extremely strong march, which had the highest monthly financing amount from 2022. One largest private financing for record -breaking – $ 40 billion for Openai.
In April, the largest financing agreement also went to the AI research laboratory: $ 2 billion with a valuation of $ 32 billion for a valuation Safe overintensionstart-up co-founder Ilya SUTSKEVEREarlier, the fundamental scientist at Openai. New funds mean that SSI has added $ 27 billion in just seven months.
Ai LED
The leading startup financing sector in April was artificial intelligence again. About $ 7 billion, or about 30% of global financing, went to firms related to AI last month, for Crunchbase.
The second leading sectors were health and biotechnological care, which collected $ 4.1 billion, and financial services by $ 3.8 billion.
Other noteworthy sectors with large rounds are security, sunny, transport, energy and space.
Increased participation in the USA
Startups from the USA collected $ 14 billion, or about 62% of global financing last month. This means one other percentage of growth in comparison with 2024, when 56% of global financing went to startups in the USA.
Meanwhile, funds to China-Drugi as to the size of a country financing country after the USA has raised $ 1.7 billion. Great Britain and India tied in third place, and the startups in each country collected just over $ 800 million last month.
Active investors receive
Active investors Insight partnersIN AccelIN Andreessen Horowitz AND Khosla Ventures In April he led the most to the stuffes of the undertaking.
Investors who conducted the largest transactions to personal firms supported by projects are private equity firms GreenoaksIN Franklin Templeton AND General Atlantic And also Venture Capital Accel.
According to the financing stage, 10% were invested in stage firms in April, and 37% went to startups at an early stage and 53% for late financing.
Market uncertainty
April shows the degree to which the project market stays in uncertainty among wider economic turmoil driven by American tariffs and escalation of the trade war.
Without strengthening the Blockbuster Investment Openai, seen from the hit agreement, the startup investment fell last month and could also be a sign of greater slowness when the investors walked fastidiously in the second quarter.
Methodology
The data contained in this report come directly from Crunchbase and are based on the reported data. Data submitted from May 2, 2025.
It ought to be noted that data delays are most clear at the earliest stages of the project’s activity, with seed funds significantly increased after the end of a quarter per 12 months.
It ought to be remembered that every one financing values are given in American dollars, unless otherwise marked. Crunchbase transforms foreign currency echange into American dollars based on the prevailing Spot rate from the date of financing, acquisitions, IPO and other financial events. Even if these events were added to Crunchbase long after the event was announced, foreign currency transactions are transformed at a historic spot price.
Voiceman of the financing conditions
Seed and Angel consists of rounds of seeds, preliminary seeds and angels. Crunchbase also includes rounds of undertakings of unknown series, crowdfunding equity and convertible notes of $ 3 million (corresponding to USD or based on consent) or less.
The early stage consists of rounds of the A series and series B, in addition to other round types. Crunchbase includes rounds of undertakings of unknown series, corporate projects and other rounds over $ 3 million, and those smaller or equal to $ 15 million.
The late stage consists of the C series, series D, series E and later rounds of the undertaking of the project after “Serie [Letter]”Naming convention. Rounds of undertakings of unknown series, corporate projects and other rounds over $ 15 million were also included.
The increase in technology is a private round of Equity raised by a company that previously raised the “undertaking” round. (Basically each round from previously defined stages.)