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Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial.

AI capital funding has dominated the venture capital landscape for the first half of the year, taking the lion’s share of deals. Q1 2026 VC deal volume surpassed an all-time high of $267.2 billion, with 88% attributed to AI and machine-learning companies. Into the second half of 2026, AI capital funneling has selectively scaled.

Garrett Smith knows a thing or two about medtech startups. He founded his first company as a bioengineering PhD student at the University of California San Diego (PhD ‘12). Since then he has stewarded several technologies through FDA approval; led multiple startups to successful acquisition; directed early innovation partnerships for massive players like Johnson and…

U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a small cluster of giant artificial intelligence rounds accounted for almost the entire jump.