Seven companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April — a defense tech startup and two each in data, healthcare and security. For at least five of them, the AI wave was a significant driver for increased momentum.
Defense tech
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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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has closed a $4.6 billion late-stage venture fund, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The busiest venture backers upped their game in the recently ended first quarter. Among the 14 most-active post-seed investors, a majority backed...
Although there were a handful of nine-figure rounds this week, funding news, in general, seemed quiet. No round topped $200 million, and even one of...
Global investment in the spacetech sector has held steady at more than $6 billion annually for the past two years, with 2025 on track to deliver...
In the first three months of 2025, venture investors have poured nearly $2.9 billion into Lone Star State companies, per Crunchbase data. That...
Defense tech investing in Europe hit a new high last year, with nearly $626 million being plowed into VC-backed startups in the industry, per...
March was a pretty good month for big rounds. To even make the list, a company needed to raise close to a quarter-billion dollars. Not surprisingly...
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