🫧 Sizes of AI bubble 🫧

AI startups raise rounds that are nearly 40% larger on average, compared to typical startups across all early stages

Considering the potential of a funding bubble in AI startups, let's compare the median funding round sizes from Carta's overall startup funding 2024 benchmark to those of our fund raise data for AI startups last 12 months. (frontieroptic.com/ai-hype-train)

AI startups, on average, raise rounds that are 38.5% larger compared to typical startups across all early stages. Is that a bubble?

🌱 Median Seed Round: $4M for all startups vs. $5.5M for AI startups (37.5% higher for AI startups).

🎯Median Series A Round: $11M for all startups vs. $16M for AI startups (45.5% higher for AI startups).

🚀 Median Series B Round: $30M for all startups vs. $40M for AI startups (33.3% higher for AI startups).

🌟 Median Series C Round: $40M for all startups vs. $55M for AI startups (37.5% higher for AI startups).