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Exclusive: AI Insurance Startup Nirvana Nearly Doubles Valuation To $1.5B with $100M Series D

December 18, 2025

Nirvana Insurance, an AI-based commercial insurance platform for the trucking industry, has raised a $100 million Series D round at a $1.5 billion valuation, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The raise comes just over nine months after the...

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Sector Snapshot: Insurtech Funding Is Way Down, But AI Is Still Driving Some Big Deals

Mary Ann Azevedo
December 11, 2025

So far in 2025, global insurance-related startups have pulled in about $3.9 billion in seed-through growth-stage financing, per Crunchbase data —...

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Yes, I’m Biased. But Still, Leading Unicorns Like Anthropic Should Be Prepping For IPOs

Joanna Glasner
December 4, 2025

Ever since the startup IPO boom of 2020-2022 came to a conclusion, market watchers keep trying to predict when we’ll see another. Hopes that 2025...

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Wealth Management Platform Wealthfront Targets $2.05B Valuation In Latest Fintech IPO

Mary Ann Azevedo
December 2, 2025

Digital wealth management platform unicorn Wealthfront has filed for an initial public offering, lining up the Palo Alto, California-based startup to...

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Crypto • Fintech • Startups • Venture

Kalshi Secures $1B To Expand Predictions Market Platform

Joanna Glasner
December 2, 2025

New York-based Kalshi today announced it raised $1 billion in Series E funding at an $11 billion valuation. Crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm...

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Crunchbase Sector Snapshot: It’s Been A Down Year For E-Commerce Funding

Joanna Glasner
November 12, 2025

Consumers and businesses are projected to spend more than $6 trillion on e-commerce retail platforms this year. But nonetheless, startup investors...

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Varied Lineup, Led By Crypto And Parking

Joanna Glasner
November 7, 2025

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...

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Ripple Lands $500M At $40B Valuation As Crypto’s Good Year Continues

Mary Ann Azevedo
November 5, 2025

Ripple, a San Francisco-based crypto payments startup, has raised $500 million at a $40 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday.

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In The Space Of Months, AI Funding Boom Adds More Than $500B In Value To Unicorn Board And Reshuffles Top 20

Gené Teare
November 3, 2025

The Crunchbase Unicorn Board crested $6 trillion in total value for the first time in August 2025, adding another half-trillion-plus in value, an...

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Regulation As Alpha: Why The Smartest Startups Now Build Legal Strategy Into Their DNA

Aron Solomon
October 30, 2025

The next generation of unicorns will be those that treat law as infrastructure from day one to build faster, safer and more resilient growth, writes...

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The Infinite Game Of Building Companies

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October 28, 2025

After a career filled with contact with some of the sharpest minds in venture and entrepreneurship, guest author Jeff Seibert of Digits shares what...

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Q1 Global Startup Funding Posts Strongest Quarter Since Q2 2022 With A Third Going To Massive OpenAI Deal  

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