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Amid fierce competition for an edge in the AI race, well-funded startups commonly find it’s simply faster to buy another company than try to build out certain technologies themselves.
Fintech & e-commerce
The sectors leading the herd to the Unicorn Board in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and...
A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI...
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, Crunchbase data shows, a...
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Fazeshift, a startup that uses AI agents to automate accounts receivable, has raised $17 million in a Series A round of funding, it tells Crunchbase...
Crunchbase News interviews Kevin Tsang, managing director of Amex Ventures, about the firm’s investment thesis, the kinds of startups it aims to...
Schematic, a startup that aims to simplify pricing and packaging for software and AI companies, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding, it tells...
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The...
European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second...
While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospace...
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Global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $12 billion across 751 deals in 2026 as of April 6, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 5%...
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