US venture funding reaches $412.7 billion in six months

Claim

US venture investment reached $412.7 billion in six months and Europe posted its best venture quarter in four years, while 22 professors decamped to frontier labs and firms began fielding AI superfans to convert skeptics.

Reported metric: $412.7B in 6 months

Reporting date: 2026-07-10 (not necessarily the event date)

Sources

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• Welcome to July 10, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)