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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Energy, Defense Tech Led

June 20, 2025

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, healthcare and financial services were also a strong theme.

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The Great Unicorn Backlog: Visualizing A Decade Of Private-Market Buildup

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June 18, 2025

As a part of our series looking at how the venture and startup landscape has evolved over the past 10 years, we look at the vast backlog of still...

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AI Autonomous Agents Are Top 2025 Trend For Seed Investment

Joanna Glasner
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Earlier this week, we wrote about investment trends popping up at seed stage. However, we left out one area where funding activity was so voluminous...

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Meet PostHog, A Startup That Just Raised A $70M Series D Led By Stripe From A Single Tweet

Mary Ann Azevedo
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PostHog, which aims to help developers build “successful products,” quietly announced last week that it had raised $70 million in a Series D funding...

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Report: Fintech Startup Ramp Said To Be Raising $200M At A $16B Valuation

Mary Ann Azevedo
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Expense management startup Ramp is reportedly in discussions to raise around $200 million in a round of funding that would bump its valuation to...

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Chime Climbs In Market Debut

Joanna Glasner
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Shares of San Francisco-based online banking company Chime shot up 37% in first-day trading Thursday on Nasdaq, the latest in a string of high...

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New Unicorns Add $22B In Value In May As 5 Trot Onto Board From Europe 

Gené Teare
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Thirteen companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May 2025, including five from Europe, Crunchbase data shows.

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Octaura Nabs $46.5M To Give Traders A Way To Trade Loans ‘More Easily’

Mary Ann Azevedo
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Octaura, developer of a syndicated loan platform, has raised $46.5 million in a funding round which included participation from a group of banking...

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Most-Active US Investors: Khosla, Accel Top May Ranking

Joanna Glasner
June 9, 2025

Venture dealmakers kept busy in May, with a handful of especially active U.S. investors leading the way. It was also a standout period for large...

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After No Funding For Years, These Startups Recently Scooped Up Big Rounds

Joanna Glasner
June 6, 2025

In 2021, scores of companies nabbed big rounds at valuations that turned out to be overly optimistic. In the following years many didn’t raise new...

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Circle Shares Soar 168% In First Day On NYSE, Potentially Unlocking IPO Market

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June 5, 2025

Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle soared out of the gate in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, after the New York-based startup...

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