Among lead investors, Khosla Ventures topped the ranks last month, while Y Combinator was by far the busiest backer by deal count. The highest-spending investors for the period, meanwhile, appear to be Coatue and Nvidia. For more detail, below we ranked active investors for July by several metrics. These include most prolific venture dealmakers, most active lead backers, biggest spenders and highest-volume seed investors. Khosla Ventures ranked as the most active lead investor in rounds of $5 million or more, with eight deals in July. The largest were a $300 million Series A for quantum computing startup Oratomic and a $120 million Series C for AI-enabled legal tech provider Norm AI. By this metric, repeat frontrunner Y Combinator once again took first place, participating in at least 19 such rounds. The storied accelerator typically takes a non-lead stake in follow-on rounds for startups it incubated. Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz were next on the list, with 10 deals...
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