Of the nearly 1,600 companies on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board, a small but ultra-elite club of private companies valued at $5 billion or more is growing across multiple metrics, an analysis of the data shows. We take a look at them, their valuations...
Defense tech
Funded startups that caught our eye this month ran the gamut from the heartwarming (a cute robotic puppy companion for seniors), to the solemn...
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...
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...
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