So far, 2021 is proving to be a wild year for really big venture investments, breaking records for funding totals and round counts. Rather than the pandemic-inspired decline many predicted, we are instead seeing an industry scaling ever-higher peaks.

In particular, so-called supergiant funding rounds of $100 million or more are taking off. Less than two months into the new year, investors already put at least $46 billion globally into such deals, per Crunchbase data. That puts this year on track to come in well above 2020’s already historically lofty levels. READ MORE