Although some experts have described as an environment more and more hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive most of the AI Venture dollars, according to data from the Pitchbook Investment Tracker.
Between February and May this year, VCS dropped $ 69.7 billion into newly established AI and Mechanical Learning Companies based in North America in 1,528 agreements. This is compared to $ 6.4 billion that VC companies invested in European AI were attempted in 742 agreements during the same period.
Asia -based businesses have got a little worse than their European counterparts, according to the Pitchbook. Between February and May, VCS invested just $ 3 billion in Asia -based AI companies in 515 agreements.
Under President Donald Trump, the US has Reduction of funding dramatically In scientific grants related to the basic AI research, it made it more difficult for foreign students specializing in AI to study in the US and threatened to disassemble AI university laboratories with billions of dollars in federal funds. The administration’s commercial policies, meanwhile, including its retaliation, have led to a chaotic market unfavorable for dangerous new businesses.
To one Post in x In March, Ai Pioneer and Nobel Prize -winning Geoffrey Hinton invited billionaire Elon Musk, who until recently informed the Trump Cost Cutting team, the ministry of government efficiency, to be expelled from the British Royal Society.
We could expect that Europe, which is committed to becoming a world leader at AI, will attract more business funds in the light of Trump’s controversial policies in the US, which created uncertainty and confusion for founders, investors and researchers. In addition, the EU has committed hundreds of billions of euros to support AI growth in its member states and already has a number of successful, well -funded AI starts in its ranks (see Mistral, H and Aleph Alpha, to mention a few).
But this expected shift of global investment has not passed. There is no sign of mass output VC in the block or important upticks in AI funding abroad – at least not yet.
The same is true for China, which has created high profile newly formed AI companies such as Deepseek and Butterfly Effect-the company behind the Agentic Manus platform-but where VC activity in the country and the wider Asian area remains relatively strict. (Export checks that affect the ability of some Asian countries to supply AI chips are almost certainly a factor.)
In 2024, North American Startups secured 75.6% of all VC AI funding – $ 106.24 billion. This share has increased only this year. So far in 2025, North America’s AI investments account for 86.2% ($ 79.74 billion) of all VC funding for AI worldwide.
It paints a somewhat amazing picture. Even in the midst of growing policies and regulatory funds under Trump’s second term, the US remains the undisputed center for AI Capital, which means that investors, tired, as it may be from the unpredictable administration, are still based on US innovation now.
