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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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...
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...
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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Expense management startup Ramp is reportedly in discussions to raise around $200 million in a round of funding that would bump its valuation to...
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...
Thirteen companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May 2025, including five from Europe, Crunchbase data shows.
Octaura, developer of a syndicated loan platform, has raised $46.5 million in a funding round which included participation from a group of banking...
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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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...
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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