There’s a number that keeps coming up in conversations about AI investment right now, and it’s so large it barely sounds real.
In the first quarter of 2026 alone, investors poured $300 billion into roughly 6,000 startups globally (Crunchbase, April 2026). That’s not a typo. A single quarter. One 90-day window. And it eclipses the total venture capital deployed in any full year before 2018. READ MORE