Energy for AI and automated defense tech led this week’s largest U.S. venture funding deals. Vertical software solutions driven by AI in sports, healthcare and financial services were also a strong theme.
Defense tech
After plowing through a huge pile of seed funding rounds, we identified four areas where seed is trending this year: longevity, defense, waste...
Shares of Denver-based space and defense tech startup Voyager Technologies closed up 82% in first-day trading Wednesday, delivering the latest sign...
Thirteen companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May 2025, including five from Europe, Crunchbase data shows.
Software may be eating the world, but it was hardware-intensive startups that scooped up this week’s largest funding rounds, including heavily funded...
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In 2021, scores of companies nabbed big rounds at valuations that turned out to be overly optimistic. In the following years many didn’t raise new...
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has raised $2.5 billion in a Series G round of funding, more than doubling its valuation to $30.5 billion...
Seven companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April — a defense tech startup and two each in data, healthcare and security. For at least...
In a busy week for defense tech raises, Chaos Industries locked up a $275 million in Series C that reportedly values the company at $2 billion. The...
It was a big week for the space and defense sectors, as investors clearly were looking to the skies. However, other sectors including cyber...
Less than a year after landing a $95 million Series B, Los Angeles-based space manufacturing company Apex locked up a $200 million Series C led by...
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