{
  "id": 13097772,
  "title": "Active Investors Kept Up The Deal Pace In Q3, Even As Funding Fell",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/active-investors-kept-up-the-deal-pace-in-q3-even-as-funding-fell",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-09T11:00:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Crunchbase News",
    "slug": "crunchbase-news",
    "url": "https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/q3-2026-active-investors-kept-deal-pace-a16z-insight-sequoia/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In the third quarter, venture capitalists maintained or increased their dealmaking pace despite a decline in venture funding, according to Crunchbase data. Prominent investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital participated in more deals compared to the previous quarter. At the seed stage, top dealmakers held their positions, with Y Combinator leading in the most deals at 45. Among lead investors, Insight, Andreessen Horowitz, and Khosla Ventures topped the list with 18, 16, and 12 deals, respectively. Valor Equity Partners and Sequoia, along with Atreides Management, each led 10 lead deals in Q3. The investors who led the highest aggregate value in Q3 were Valor, Atreides, with $7.7 billion, followed by Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia with $6.5 billion and $6.3 billion, respectively. Y Combinator emerged as the busiest seed investor, participating in at least 221 seed rounds in Q3. The quarter marked a busy time for startup funding, driven largely by AI, with familiar names leading the rankings but also a few firms scaling up their investments, particularly Atreides and Valor.",
  "summary": "Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders.",
  "key_points": [
    "Venture capitalists maintained or increased dealmaking pace in Q3 despite funding decline",
    "Y Combinator led most deals at 45 in seed stage",
    "Valor Equity Partners and Sequoia led 10 lead deals each in Q3"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}