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So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with such rounds instrumental in pushing global funding for the first half of the year to record levels.
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U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the way. Houston-based...
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Vikram Taneja, head of AT&T Ventures, shares why he believes that while AI has drastically lowered the barrier...
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The SpaceX IPO Filing Looks Nothing Like Those Of The Elite Group Of Tech Giants It’s Hoping To Join
SpaceX filed its public IPO prospectus Wednesday, highlighting many amazing things that it has accomplished in its reach for a trillion-dollar-plus...
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Miravoice, a startup using AI voice agents to conduct long-form phone surveys, has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round, the company tells...
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Whoop, which provides wearable fitness technology and a subscription platform that tracks physiological data for insights, announced Tuesday that it...
It was going to be a fairly business as usual top 10 list this week until OpenAI decided to disrupt our Friday with news that it raised $110 billion...
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Venture funding to Europe-based startups last year gained only slightly, around 9% year over year, reaching $58 billion, with AI emerging as the...
Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it...
After a career filled with contact with some of the sharpest minds in venture and entrepreneurship, guest author Jeff Seibert of Digits shares what...
Founding a startup inside a scale-up can give your company the speed of a seed-stage team with the leverage of an established company, writes guest...
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