Boston VC in 2026: $16.7B Raised in 2025, and Biotech Still Drives the Market
Boston startups raised $16.7B in 2025 and a record $1B in January 2026 alone — here's who's writing the checks and where the capital is flowing.
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Boston startups raised $16.7B in 2025 and a record $1B in January 2026 alone — here's who's writing the checks and where the capital is flowing.
Cerebras' billion-dollar round underlines that wafer-scale and specialty AI accelerators are an investable asset class separate from GPU supply chains.
Waymo's $16B round led by Dragoneer, DST Global, and Sequoia reframes autonomous mobility as a platform-scale infrastructure bet, not a moonshot.
Baseten's January 2026 round highlights enterprise demand for latency-optimized model serving as a dedicated infrastructure layer.
Humans& raised one of the largest seed rounds in AI, highlighting investor concentration around elite teams from top labs.
Helsing's Prima Materia-led mega-round, Kongsberg space JV, and HX-2 production ramp together show Europe committing to defense-tech sovereignty.