In the first half of this year, 58 venture-backed companies joined the public listings at $1 billion or above, per Crunchbase data. With the year’s end now in sight, a small window remains for other startups to launch 2026 IPOs, so we took a look at...
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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...
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...
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...
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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%...
Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the three-month period ending March 31 — up year...
U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds in the first quarter of 2026 per...
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A fixture in Silicon Valley for decades, Tim Draper has built a reputation for bold, often contrarian bets that have yielded some of the industry’s...
A total of 31 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in January, the largest count of companies to join in a single month since June 2022...
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