Venture Capital

This analyst note initiates coverage of Databricks, assessing its AI business quality, financial forecasts, and valuation to determine whether its $190 billion price leaves room for investor returns.

AI’s energy needs are a potential tailwind for specialist funds in the sector.

In 2026 YTD, $86 billion has been deployed across 4,864 early-stage VC deals. Multistage fund participation at Series A hit record highs by count and value, reshaping who gets funded in this barbell market.

Dealmaking in the Middle East and North Africa cooled in the first half of the year as the Emirates accounted for the majority of regional deal value.

The H1 2026 MENA Private Capital Breakdown examines the region’s PE and VC markets and analyzes recent events’ impacts on these spaces.

European startups are projected to raise 60% more in venture debt than last year.

The record VC round comes amid a strategic pivot for the French AI company.

Several European funds have closed or launched to back female founders, who are currently experiencing a surge in investment.

The Q2 2026 Global Private Market Fundraising Report offers a definitive review of the private market fund landscape with fundraising, cash flow, dry powder, and AUM data across geographies and seven strategies, including private equity and venture capital.

Our Global Markets Snapshot tracks monthly trends in equity, debt, and commodities markets as well as major private market deals, fundraising, IPO performance, lending volume, and unicorn creation.

Our global unicorn tracker allows you to see all the billion-dollar companies formed since 2016. Explore trends in unicorn formation by filtering for geography or date.

PitchBook’s annual list compares undergraduate and graduate programs by tallying up the number of startup founders among their alumni.

As Europe has grown as a breeding ground for innovative tech startups, its universities have risen to the challenge of educating tomorrow’s founders.

Female startup founders face well-documented challenges in their entrepreneurial journeys, and attending a university with a strong network of venture-backed founders is one strategy to improve the odds of success.

A growing number of companies remain active but underfunded.

This analyst note explores why most of the over 24,000 APAC companies funded during the 2020 to 2021 VC boom remain active and private—but stuck. We track the boom-era cohort through the market reset.

This analyst note explores how AI-driven private valuation inflation and widening public-private pricing gaps have structurally shifted when and why VC-backed companies go public.

The Machine Age Fund targets AI infrastructure, including data centers, chips, networking and memory.