US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace

What happened

venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today, but the exits needed to return that money to investors have not kept pace. Much of the $515.8 billion invested in […] The post US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Much of the $515.8 billion invested in the first nine months of the year went to OpenAI Group PBC (a company legally required to pursue a stated public benefit) and Anthropic PBC , which between them raised more than $200 billion in the first half. Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S.

UPDATED 00:01 EDT / OCTOBER 08 2026 AI US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace by Duncan Riley Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. Without those rounds, PitchBook’s analysts said, the dollar totals have held to much the same trend since late 2024.

Third-quarter deal value fell about 40%, to $98.4 billion, and most of the drop came out of venture-growth rounds. Startups kept closing deals at a near-record pace regardless. took the quarter’s largest check at $5 billion .