2025 Wrapped – VC rebound or AI bubble?
The data and trends that matter in startups and VC.
A look back at the final conclusions on 2025, a year of growth and resurgence, but uneven distribution. And a look ahead at 2026.
Why You Can’t Miss This Session:
• The AI Investment Surge: Discover how AI attracted $198B in 2025 – nearly 50% of all global venture capital – and what this means for the future of tech investing
• M&A Market Reopens: What $131B in M&A exits in 2025 means for liquidity opportunities after years of drought
• The $2B+ Mega-Round Era: The dramatic shift as capital concentrates at the top, with 19 companies raising $2B+ rounds compared to just 3 in the previous two years
• Defense & Hard Tech Revolution: Explore how venture capital is pivoting from software to physical products, with defense tech and manufacturing becoming strategic priorities
• The $7 Trillion Exit Pipeline: Get insights on the biggest exit opportunity in history, with private unicorns and thoroughbreds valued at $7T waiting for their moment
• Winners-Take-All Market: Understand why 74% of scaleup capital flows to the US and how the Bay Area alone captured more funding than all of EMEA and Asia Pacific combined