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 would be the year are now fading as activity has remained muted. Maybe 2026 will be the year.
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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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New York-based Kalshi today announced it raised $1 billion in Series E funding at an $11 billion valuation. Crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm...
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, a San Francisco-based crypto payments startup, has raised $500 million at a $40 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday.
Since its 2012 inception, Coinbase has acquired dozens of companies and has been keeping up the pace. We take a look at what caught the publicly...
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Brazil is back in the lead in Latin America's venture funding tally — and in a big way. Brazil-based startups raised $692 million in Q3, up 47% year...
This week was a fairly busy one for large financings, with eight of the top 10 exceeding the $100 million mark. Leading the way were two software...
After the U.S. government’s tariffs plan scared off several companies earlier this year, a flurry of startups announced Tuesday that they plan to...
We used Crunchbase’s predictive intelligence tools to curate a list of 14 venture-backed companies in sectors ranging from AI to fintech to consumer...
Hoping to be the first company to commercialize fusion power, Commonwealth Fusion Systems led the pack by a long shot for funding this week, pulling...
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