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This year is on track to outpace last year for the number of startups buying their venture-backed peers, Crunchbase data shows. We speak with M&A advisers about the factors underlying those trends...
This was a big week for big checks, both confirmed and reported. Among confirmed rounds, the largest financing went to fintech provider Ramp, which landed $500 million at a $22.5 billion valuation to...
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AI is redefining software’s role, enabling products that perform end-to-end work, write guest authors Medha Agarwal and Noah Lin of Defy, who share four playbook stages that leading AI-first...
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