April did not bring a shower of startup funding deals, as venture investors seemed to retreat.
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Venture investors have been more lukewarm this year on autonomous driving tech, seemingly letting big transportation and car companies battle it out...
As the AI wave plays out, creating more value over the next decade, could we see global venture investment double or more again?
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Global venture funding totaled $23 billion in April 2025, flat year over year and down significantly month over month from $68 billion invested in...
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In recent years, venture funding is increasingly about pouring ever-larger sums into a few companies already considered a big deal in their...
Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence led the way for big funding rounds last month, but that wasn’t the only tech that interested investors...
As President Trump imposes steep tariffs on steel imports, we look at venture funding to the steel sector and find startup investors have poured...
Shares of ServiceTitan surged 42% in first-day trading on the Nasdaq Thursday, in what is likely to be the last, large IPO by a venture-backed...
What are the big business stories you’re watching in the new year? Are you gearing up to raise new capital in 2025? Or are you cutting costs? These...
Funding activity shows especially heavy enthusiasm around artificial intelligence, with roughly a third of funding in our sample set going to AI...
AI startup Safe Superintelligence’s $1 billion round — for a startup that’s existed for only a few months — easily led the way. However, it wasn’t...
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