{"id":184925,"date":"2026-02-06T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/ai-startups-get-53-per-cent-from-2025-venture-capital-investment\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:10:12","slug":"ai-startups-get-53-per-cent-from-2025-venture-capital-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/ai-startups-get-53-per-cent-from-2025-venture-capital-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startups get 53 per cent from 2025 venture capital investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/business-services\/ai-startups-get-53-per-cent-from-2025-venture-capital-investment\/\">AI startups get 53 per cent from 2025 venture capital investment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/business-services\/ai-startups-get-53-per-cent-from-2025-venture-capital-investment\/\">https:\/\/guardian.ng\/business-services\/ai-startups-get-53-per-cent-from-2025-venture-capital-investment\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-06 00:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"guardian.ng\">guardian.ng<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2025, AI became the dominant sector in venture capital, capturing 52.7% of the $512.6 billion of investments made globally. <\/li>\n<li>AI received an unprecedented $270 billion, which surpassed the collective investments across all other sectors combined.<\/li>\n<li>Although the total number of venture capital deals declined throughout the year, AI investments remained resilient.<\/li>\n<li>For the first time, AI investments overtook all other sectors combined, marking a pivotal turning point for the AI sector. <\/li>\n<li>VC firms have turned to a more selective approach since 2021-2022, backing established AI companies with proven applications or those focusing on critical AI and cloud infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Major funding rounds in 2025, such as the $40 billion raise by OpenAI, underscore the trend towards investing in established, reputable AI companies. <\/li>\n<li>Despite a decrease in overall deal volumes, AI\u2019s share of venture capital funding continued to steadily increase throughout the years from 23% in 2023 to 52.7% in 2025.<\/li>\n<li>The trend signifies a strong, sustained interest in AI, driven by competition and the concentration of investment in elite AI startups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI startups get 53 per cent from 2025 venture capital investment https:\/\/guardian.ng\/business-services\/ai-startups-get-53-per-cent-from-2025-venture-capital-investment\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-06&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Artificial-Intelligence-AI.-PHOTO-FORBES-2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184927,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184925\/revisions\/184927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}