FT: AI Boom Fuels VC Comeback in 'Moonshot' Deeptech, Non-AI Deeptech Funding Tops $150B Since 2024

Financial Times reporter Tim Bradshaw, citing Dealroom, says non-AI deep-tech funding has surpassed $150B since the start of 2024 as AI enthusiasm reignites VC appetite for high-risk moonshot categories — brain-computer interfaces, space, fusion and novel materials — that had been starved of capital during the 2022–23 downturn. The report frames the shift as investors chasing adjacent bets they hope AI will unlock next, echoing DARPA's own $30B brain-tech surge tracked separately.