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 unicorn this year.
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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...
The investment would be SoftBank’s first in OpenAI and comes more than a year after SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son told investors the fund would be...
This year is shaping up as the first we’ve seen in which biotech and healthcare startups receive a majority of U.S. Series A commitments.
Through the middle of May, funding is less than half of what it was at the same point last year, per Crunchbase data, despite the war in Ukraine...
The startup industry has settled into a new, healthy normal where valuations have returned to reasonable levels, but will that lead us to a...
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Bain Capital Ventures takes a research-first approach to investing in AI companies, Rak Garg, partner at the firm told us recently.
If the current sluggish pace of IPOs and acquisitions continues, it would take decades for every U.S. unicorn to generate an exit.
With IPOs still in a lull, funding flat and valuations down from their frothy highs, many have predicted an M&A boom is nigh. But Q1 saw just a...
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