In Q3 2025, 25 startups raised $100M+, mostly in AI. Giants like Anthropic ($13B), Mistral ($1.99B), and Cohere ($500M) led the way, alongside verticals like EliseAI (real estate) or Ambience (healthcare) plus infra bets like Lambda, Baseten, fal.I published a list of 20+ YC startups building Voice AI in 2024/25, everything from call center agents (Freya, Calltree) and debt collection (Altur) to healthcare (careCycle), logistics (Lanesurf), and even Photoshop rebuilt with voice (awen).OpenAI dropped data on how people use ChatGPT, and every bar is a billion-dollar wedge if you verticalize it (10% of the world’s adult population log into it every week, 700M people…). Tutoring (10%), how-to advice (9%), personal writing + editing (18%), health + fitness (6%) etc. Check-out their new “Grove Program” for builders.
From this morning, it’s all coming to/from the same companies. 19 companies raised 20 megadeals, or financings of $100 million and higher, representing 45% of all capital invested—over 8% of deals absorbed nearly half of all capital deployed. Some of those megadeals included Whoop, OpenEvidence, Grow Therapy, Verily, Talkiatry, eMed, Forus and Aidoc.
Brilliant Round Up - Resposted with a commentary because my audience will love it - thanks for publishing ✨
Appreciate this Chris!
An excellent resource - thank you for wrangling it all together!
Thank you James!
Great one Ivan
Thank you sir!
I really enjoy roundups and reports.
thanks michael!
From this morning, it’s all coming to/from the same companies. 19 companies raised 20 megadeals, or financings of $100 million and higher, representing 45% of all capital invested—over 8% of deals absorbed nearly half of all capital deployed. Some of those megadeals included Whoop, OpenEvidence, Grow Therapy, Verily, Talkiatry, eMed, Forus and Aidoc.