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It looks like SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 is coming back strong. In the last nearly two quarters, the fund has participated in 13 funding rounds — many of them large and many of them involving artificial intelligence.
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The Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative team analyzed 2,791 founders behind 1,110 U.S.-based VC-backed unicorns to understand their professional...
Legal tech has the power to transform the profession, but it must be implemented thoughtfully, with rigorous checks and safeguards in place, writes...
Stanford Venture Capital Initiative's team researched the educational backgrounds of founders from more than 1,000 U.S. venture-backed companies that...
How long does it take to build a unicorn? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Ilya Strebulaev and his Venture Capital Initiative team...
For the past couple of weeks large rounds have barely trickled in, and this week continues that trend. Just three deals hit $100 million or more as...
Startups that launched and scaled with a focus on aiding workplace diversity, equity and inclusion efforts a few years ago haven’t been heavy...
This is our last weekly Top 10 of the year and we go out with some pretty big rounds — especially in the world of fintech. All in all, 2024 was...
It has not been a good year for edtech startup funding. Barring some last minute mega-rounds, investment in the space for 2024 is on track to hit the...
So far in 2024, just 118 small and midsized U.S. startup investors — excluding funds operated by firms that have raised $2 billion or more in total —...
Another big week for biotech, as startups in the sector scooped up multiple spots on this week’s list. However, there also were big rounds in...
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