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The week of September 22-28, 2025, was a powerhouse for private capital, with over $4.4 Billion deployed across more than 70 disclosed deals. The story is one of a market doubling down on its convictions: Artificial Intelligence is not a trend but the new operating system for business.
However, beneath the AI tsunami, we see strong, resilient funding for Financial services, Climatetech, and Industrial tech, indicating a balanced and maturing investment landscape. Furthermore, a notable uptick in IPO activity for industrial and energy companies suggests growing confidence in the public markets as a viable exit path.
Artificial Intelligence wasn’t just a vertical; it was the underlying fabric of the entire week, accounting for over 50% of the total capital deployed.
FinTech remained a colossal force, with a focus on the infrastructure that enables a digital-first financial world.
Takeaway: The “picks and shovels” of finance (payments, settlement, compliance) are attracting more stable, large-scale funding than consumer-facing fintech apps.
The energy transition and advanced manufacturing are seeing a powerful convergence of venture capital and public markets. This is the “Hard Tech” moment.
• Advanced Manufacturing: Empower Semiconductor ($140M), focused on chips for AI data centers, and Corintis SA ($24M) are key bets on the hardware that will power the next generation of electronics.
The public market showed clear signs of thawing:
• Massive Late-stage rounds: The week was dominated by Series C and beyond, with 10+ deals over $100M. This points to a significant amount of “dry powder” being deployed into proven winners to scale them into dominant players (e.g., Filevine, Fnality).
The United States continued to be the epicenter of venture activity, accounting for the majority of large deals (Filevine, Modular, AppZen, Distyl AI, etc.). The sheer scale of funding for AI foundational models solidifies this lead.
India was not just a source for tech outsourcing; it demonstrated clear maturity as an industrial and cleantech exit hub. The three IPOs in manufacturing and cleantech underscore a powerful trend: the public market is ready to absorb industrial and energy companies scaling in emerging markets.
The UK and Switzerland showed remarkable strength. The UK delivered Signal Media ($165M) and Fnality ($136M), while Switzerland produced the industrial robotics firm ANYbotics ($149M) and the semiconductor player Corintis SA ($24M). This cements Central Europe as a reliable hub for advanced manufacturing and deep-tech that combines software and hardware.
Last week’s data reveals a private capital acting with clear conviction. The era of speculative bets is giving way to targeted deployments in a few key theses:
1. The AI-first future: Capital is aggressively funding the entire AI stack, from foundational models to application-layer B2B SaaS.
2. The rebuilding of the physical world: Climatetech, advanced manufacturing, and industrial tech are now mainstream venture categories with clear exit paths via the public market.
3. Financial system 2.0: The digital transformation of financial infrastructure is underway and well-capitalized.
The diversity of large deals shows a vibrant and complex global ecosystem. The following weeks will tell if this is a one-off surge or a sustained new normal.
Stay tuned for our monthly analysis.
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