North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI
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Crunchbase NewsNorth American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AIcrunchbase.comOverall, investment in U.S. and Canadian startups totaled a staggering $392 billion for the first half of 2026, per Crunchbase data, dwarfing anything we’ve seen before.
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