Dimitri Zabelin
Dimitri Zabelin is a Senior Investment Research Analyst specializing in AI at PitchBook, where he covers venture capital funding trends across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and life sciences. He is best known for his quantitative research on AI investment flows, including quarterly AI funding reports and analysis of sovereign wealth fund AI allocations, which have been cited in outlets such as BBC News, Reuters, and Forbes. Before joining PitchBook, he founded Pantheon Insights, a geopolitical risk consultancy, and held roles at the World Economic Forum and DailyFX/IG Group, where he applied macroeconomic and geopolitical analysis to capital markets.
“The adoption of agentic AI... is a huge driver of funding, said senior analyst and author of the report, Dimitri Zabelin.”
“The concentration of capital into frontier models shows the conviction investors have in OpenAI's and Anthropic's ability to not just scale their own platforms but the vertical applications built on top of them.”
Source→“"With the overall quarterly deal count at its lowest level since 2018, capital is increasingly concentrated in fewer startups."”
Source→“DeepMind remains the competitor worth watching most closely, with a multi-year head start on domain-specific biological reasoning. Rosalind is OpenAI entering a race Google is already running.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.