The pace of large U.S. startup financing announcements was somewhat muted in a shortened Fourth of July workweek. There was, however, one big exception.
Cloud computing
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In a busy week for unicorns making acquisitions, Canada-based legal software company Clio revealed its plans to acquire Spain’s vLex from Oakley...
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Tel Aviv-based cloud security provider Cato Networks announced Monday that it raised $359 million in Series G funding at a valuation of more than $4...
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Active Capital, a San Antonio-based solo GP venture firm, has closed on its third fund — a $28 million vehicle aimed at investing in enterprise AI...
Databricks announced Wednesday that it will acquire database management platform Neon in a deal reportedly valued at around $1 billion, one of 13...
If the current pace of exits persists, it would take 30 years for every U.S. company on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board to go public or be acquired...
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Over the past five years, private equity firms have spent more than $56 billion in disclosed-price acquisitions of private, venture-backed companies...
Businesses today are seeking an open cloud: The freedom to choose storage from one provider, compute from another and specialized AI services from a...
Eleven new companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, adding around $16 billion in value to the board. Another $200 billion in value was...
Dealmaking involving VC-backed startups jumped 26% year to year in Q1, but stayed pretty steady from the final quarter of 2024 even as many hoped for...
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Shares of CoreWeave closed flat at $40 on their first day of trading on the Nasdaq today. Shares had opened at $39 on Friday, a day when the Nasdaq...
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