Who's Investing: 47 Funds, $2.76B Deployed: 5–12 Oct 2026
Forty-seven funds were observed writing cheques across 36 rounds in the week of 5–12 October 2026, deploying $2,756M — up sharply from 28 funds the previous week.
◆ Funds this week
47
◆ Fresh capital
$2.8B
◆ Undisclosed terms
1 funds
◆ Previous week
28 funds · $878M
◆ Published
12 October 2026
◆ The Week
In the week of 5–12 October 2026, 47 funds were observed investing across 36 rounds, deploying a combined $2,756M. That is up from 28 funds the previous week — a rise of 19 active investors in a single edition. One round was undisclosed.
◆ Stages
Seed was the most active stage by fund count with 21 funds observed there, followed by Series A at 14 and Series B at 12. Pre-seed drew 6 funds and one fund was observed at Series D. The seed-heavy posture is consistent with a market in which early-stage conviction is running ahead of later-stage follow-on appetite.
seed21 funds
series-a14 funds
series-b12 funds
pre-seed6 funds
series-d1 fund
◆ Sectors
AI & ML drew the largest cluster of fund attention with 7 funds observed backing startups in the space, followed by Enterprise Software (4 funds), then Digital Health, Healthtech Infrastructure, Robotics, and Semiconductors at 3 funds each. AI Infrastructure and Data Infrastructure each attracted 2 funds. The concentration in AI-adjacent categories reflects a sustained capital allocation thesis across the participating investor base: funds with mandates spanning frontier models, infrastructure, and applied automation are all finding deals in the same window, pointing to genuine pipeline depth rather than a single headline round pulling the numbers.
AI & ML7 funds
Enterprise Software4 funds
Digital Health3 funds
Healthtech Infrastructure3 funds
Robotics3 funds
Semiconductors3 funds
◆ Geography
North America dominated by fund count, with 34 of the 47 active funds headquartered there. Europe and the United Kingdom each contributed 5 funds, South Asia 2, and East Asia 1 — a distribution that underscores how thoroughly US-based capital continues to set the pace at seed and Series A, even as European and UK vehicles show up consistently in the syndicate lists.
North America34 funds
Europe5 funds
United Kingdom5 funds
South Asia2 funds
East Asia1 fund
◆ The Database
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