Global venture capital investment reached a record $189 billion in February.
Three artificial intelligence companies secured a combined $156 billion. OpenAI raised $110 billion. Anthropic secured $30 billion. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving unit, raised $16 billion.
AI-related startups captured $171 billion. This figure represents 90% of the month's total venture capital. Strategic corporate investors led these mega-deals.
Overall seed-stage funding declined during this period. The capital concentration signals an escalating strategic investment race among major technology companies to dominate the AI sector.