Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:

PitchBook: US startups raised $209B in 2024, up ~33% from 2023; AI startups raised $97B, the largest portion on record; VCs raised $76.1B, the lowest since 2019  —  VC investors piled into AI megarounds in the US last year.  —  Venture capitalists put $97 billion into artificial intelligence startups …