AI's $100 billion impact: 2024’s venture capital surge and the road ahead for startups

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Today on Equity, Julie Bort sits down with Crunchbase News’ Senior Data Editor, Gené Teare, to dive deeper into the year’s slight growth in investment, which reached $314 billion, up from $304 billion in 2023. The pair explores how AI became a dominant force in the landscape. As Teare puts it, “Tech rides on bubbles. What bubbles tell you is that if everyone's putting dollars into a certain sector, it means there are very big outcomes coming.” Listen to the full episode to hear more about: The surge of AI investment and what it signals for the future The challenges startups face in raising capital, particularly in Series A Regional concentration of venture funding, especially in the U.S. What’s next for the IPO market as we look toward 2025 Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes here. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. We’d also like to thank TechCrunch’s audience development team. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll talk to you next time.

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0:00.0	This episode is presented by Invest Puerto Rico.
0:03.4	If you believe your business can go anywhere, Puerto Rico is the place.
0:19.1	Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of
0:23.3	startups. I'm Rebecca Boulan, and this is the episode where we bring on industry experts to help us
0:28.0	home in on a trend in the tech world and dive deep. It's no secret that 2024 was a breakout year for
0:33.4	AI, but to dive deeper into the numbers, I'm handing the reins over to TechCrunch editor
0:37.6	over on the venture desk, Julie Bort. Julie caught up with CrunchBased News senior data editor
0:42.0	Jenae Tier to take a look at global venture funding in 2024, who came out on top, and what we
0:47.3	expect to see in 2025. Let's take a listen.
0:53.9	Janay, welcome back to equity. Today we're going to talk about the state of the venture capital
0:59.2	universe. You just finished extensive research on what happened in 2024. And you have some
1:05.8	ideas of maybe what this indicates for 2025, or at least the early part of 2025.
1:11.9	Let's dive in with like what was the most surprising thing that your research showed up.
1:17.4	What did you expect to see?
1:19.4	But then the data set something else.
1:22.2	Yeah.
1:22.6	Well, it's always interesting.
1:23.9	You know, I spend a lot of time with the crunch-based data set analyzing and looking at
1:27.6	the venture ecosystem. And the leading report that comes out looks at venture globally, and then we
1:33.2	look at each region. And I think what was interesting, you know, to sort of frame the discussion is
1:37.6	venture, I would say, was slightly stronger in 2024 than in 2023. So we're close to two and a half years into the downturn. We're two full
1:47.2	years because 2022, even though the market corrected at the end of 21, the beginning half of
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