Altogether, the five companies invested in 149 known startup financings of $1 million or more last year. 1 That's up a bit from 2023, but still the second-lowest total of the past five years, as charted below. !function(e,n,i,s){var d="InfogramEmbeds";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,"script","infogram-async","https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js"); Among the Big Five, Google and its holding company Alphabet were by far the most active venture investors last year, with 87 known rounds. Besides Waymo, the company and its affiliated venture firms' largest lead rounds were for digital bank Monzo and data management platform Cribl. To the contrary, there are a lot of positive signals, including flush cash reserves and historically strong stock prices at the most...
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