Eight companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, with six based in the U.S., and two hailing from China and India, respectively.
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Mastercard has agreed to buy threat intelligence company Recorded Future from Insight Partners. The deal represents a nice return for the private equity firm, which bought the startup in 2019.
Funding overall was down for August, and in the U.S. no investor consummated very many deals. Alumni Ventures was the only VC firm to break a double-digit count in the slow month.
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