From putting nuclear reactors on barges to grading how well AI models can control robots, this month’s crop of interesting startup deals takes AI and other emerging technologies well beyond the conventional software stack.
Clean tech and energy
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U.S. venture-backed technology companies have secured around $90 billion in domestic public offerings this year, per Crunchbase data. That’s already...
We ranked August’s most active startup investors across several categories, including lead backers, prolific venture dealmakers, highest spenders and...
It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding, with four companies each raising $1 billion or more. The Boring Co. led with a $3 billion Series D...
A total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, adding around $63 billion in value to the board. More than a third of the...
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Venture investors poured $42 billion into just over 1,500 startups worldwide in August, Crunchbase data shows, down 25% from July’s $56 billion but...
In the first half of this year, 58 venture-backed companies joined the public listings at $1 billion or above, per Crunchbase data. With the year’s...
This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or...
Databricks is back raising another $5 billion, after it raised that amount just eight months ago. The largest fundings this week also went to an AI...
The sectors leading the herd to the Unicorn Board in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and...
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more...
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