VC Is Dead for Non-AI Startups!?

Venture capital split into two markets in 2026, AI and everyone else. Non-AI startup funding got harder, lower, and lonelier. Here is the new map, and the way out.

Venture capital threw the party of the decade, then forgot to invite anyone without a chatbot. Two-thirds of every dollar wandered off to AI, and non-AI founders were left holding the coats. Your valuation, your control, your runway, all worse than last year. Here lies the wake, and the side exit.