Where 59 billion in new startup capital actually went this quarter

That $300 billion Q1 venture number everyone freaked out about? Strip out four mega-deals – OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Waymo – and the real market was 586 companies raising a median of $22.9 million, running 13 deals per business day while you were staring at the wrong scoreboard. Horizontal SaaS just got crushed with 35% down multiples while vertical software held strong, and now OpenAI and Anthropic are literally trying to buy implementation firms because the bottleneck moved from AI models to actually deploying them inside companies.