Twenty companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board last month — the highest count of companies to join in a single month since July 2022, when the...
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We take a deep dive into our Q2 startup data with eight charts from Crunchbase News’ venture reports that illustrate the major startup and VC trends...
For what one might expect to be a sleepy week in mid-July, this turned out to be a fairly active period for venture dealmaking. Top fundraisers...
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Overall, nine of the 10 most active venture investors in 2025 did more deals in Q2 than in Q1, per Crunchbase data. Ditto for 80% of the top 10 lead...
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A total of $12.6 billion was raised by around 1,200 startups across Europe last quarter, with funding amounts comparable with the previous two...
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...
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.
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