The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI’s disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings went to startups and growth-stage companies in sectors including defense tech, enterprise AI, autonomy...
Enterprise
![Computer generating AI data. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/AI-generated-470x352.jpg)
With SaaS customers gaining the ability to build their own workflows or features with AI coding tools, vendors who aren’t prepared for the shift...
New York-based Vestwell, a digital savings platform, has raised $385 million in a Series E funding round co-led by Blue Owl Capital and Sixth Street...
![M&A - Illustration of a magnet attracting various products. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/mergers_and_acquisitions-470x352.jpg)
Banking giant Capital One announced on Thursday that it is acquiring fintech startup Brex for $5.15 billion in a cash and stock deal, in what Brex...
![Image of multiuse agentic AI/robot North America quarterly[Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/year-of-agentic-ai-quarterly-north-america-470x352.jpg)
Investors poured $280 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies in 2025, per Crunchbase data, the highest annual...
![Image of robotic figures racing to an IPO finish line, to illustrate companies heading toward the public markets. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/IPO-race-470x352.jpg)
Using Crunchbase’s predictive intelligence tools — which evaluate factors including funding history, growth signals, investor mix and market timing —...
![Illustration of remote meet on cellphone, unicorn chess piece and money. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/business-strategy-470x352.jpg)
Expense management company Ramp has raised yet another round of capital — its fourth in 2025 alone — this time a $300 million venture round at a $32...
![Illustration of AI/Human teamwork. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/AI-cowork-470x352.jpg)
Vibe coding creates unreliable software and risks long-term model collapse, where systems degrade due to compounding errors and poor data integrity...
This week has been a busy one for good-sized rounds, led by $500 million financings for crypto unicorn Ripple and AI-enabled parking provider...
Findem is just one of more than a dozen startups at the intersection of AI and recruitment globally that has raised venture capital in 2025.
AI startups and California-based companies have been scooping up an outsized share of venture funding for a while now, and this past week was no...
![Illustration of a guy watering plants with a blocked hose - Global [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/quarterly-global-3-300x168.jpg)
67.1K Followers