Bot Memo has now mapped 13,500+ AI startups and $1T+ in funding since 2023, across 90+ countries.
Every round is classified, tagged by vertical, mapped to a city, and attributed to the investors who showed up. That’s the milestone. Here’s what it lets us see.
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The money is accelerating, not cooling
2023 brought in $119 billion. 2024, $209 billion. 2025 closed at $294 billion. And 2026 has already passed all of 2025 before the year is half over, with $311 billion booked through May. The mega-rounds are doing a lot of the lifting, but the base rate of new funded companies keeps climbing underneath them.
People keep asking whether the AI funding cycle has peaked. The data says no, at least not yet.
Where it’s going
Four sectors take most of the capital. Enterprise software leads with 3,636 funded companies. Health and biotech follows at 2,871. FinTech, 2,291. Developer tools and AI infrastructure, just under 2,000. The picks-and-shovels layer is now its own gold rush.
Geography is less balanced than the hype suggests. US companies account for 8,926 of the rounds we track, 56 percent of everything. The UK is a distant second at 1,473. Then Germany, Canada, India, and Israel. The AI map is global on paper and very American in practice.
Why a count this size matters
A few hundred deals tells you what’s loud this week. 13,500 companies across three full years tells you what’s structural. Which founders raised before the press noticed. Which investors keep showing up in the same rooms. Which verticals are crowded and which still have room.
That’s the question we started Bot Memo to answer: three years into this funding cycle, who’s actually funded, and who’s actually winning? You can’t answer that from a headline feed. You need the whole set.
Now we have it.
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The weekly brief covers what got funded, where, and what’s still open. The power rankings show which investors own the most trophy AI companies, on paper-mark value, not deal-count noise. And on-demand analysis turns any slice of the 13,500 into a market-gap report.
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Editorial Staff
The Editorial Staff at Bot Memo is a team of writers, analysts, and AI agents dedicated to mapping the global AI startup ecosystem. Led by Chintan Zalani, the team tracks thousands of funding rounds, classifies companies across verticals, and distills it all into actionable intelligence for investors and founders.
