Global venture funding totaled $23 billion in April 2025
That number was flat year-over-year and down significantly month-over-month, according to an article in Crunchbase News.
Gené Teare wrote in a recent Crunchbase News article that global venture funding totaled $23 billion in April 2025, flat year-over-year and down significantly month-over-month from $68 billion invested in March, Crunchbase data shows.
April’s funding total marks one of the slowest months in the past year.
The slow month follows an exceptionally strong March, which had the highest monthly funding amount since 2022 due to the single largest private financing on record — $40 billion for OpenAI.
In April, the largest funding deal also went to an artificial intelligence (AI)research lab: $2 billion at a $32 billion valuation for Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a start-up co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, previously Chief Scientist at OpenAI. The new funding means SSI added $27 billion in value in the space of just seven months.
The leading sector for start-up funding in April was again artificial intelligence. About $7 billion, or around 30 percent of global funding, went to AI-related companies last month. Runner-up leading sectors were healthcare and biotech, which raised $4.1 billion, and financial services with $3.8 billion.
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