Joanna Glasner

Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. That's by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years, as charted below.

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It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder . The week also included some big financings for enterprise tech, food delivery, drones and construction automation.

So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with such rounds instrumental in pushing global funding for the first half of the year to record levels.

Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech. By far the largest financing of the week was a $1.7 billion round for

A large cluster of deals in the $5M to $10M range Big seed and early-stage bets too A solid year for overall security funding

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Another week, another bevy of big rounds. For this past week, the largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia -backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe Superintelligence , followed by a $1 billion investment in Commonwealth Fusion Systems . Other sizable rounds went to companies in sectors including energy storage, health testing, nuclear power, fintech, and, yes, AI.

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Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more. Additionally, a robust lineup of companies in sectors including AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech and even mining also announced sizable new rounds.