Although there were a handful of nine-figure rounds this week, funding news, in general, seemed quiet. No round topped $200 million, and even one of...
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Europe’s venture funding plateaued at $12.6 billion in Q1 2025 — flat quarter over quarter and year over year, Crunchbase data shows. Without the...
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Latin America startup investment declined sequentially in the first quarter of this year, driven by a drop in later-stage dealmaking. Even so...
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Crypto payments firm Ripple is acquiring brokerage house Hidden Road for $1.25 billion in one of the biggest M&A deals ever in crypto.
Social media's age assurance has emerged as one of the most debated topics in trust and safety. In this guest commentary, Sacha Lazimi of Yubo shares...
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Bay Area-based SignalFire, a data-driven venture firm, has raised $1 billion for its fifth and largest fund, which it will invest in applied AI...
This was a week right out of the free-spending days of 2021. Huge rounds were abundant — led by the biggest of them all as OpenAI’s massive $40...
Alphabet spinoff SandboxAQ — an AI and quantum computing startup — added another $150 million to its Series E from the likes of Google and Nvidia.
Venture funding to crypto and blockchain startups more than doubled in the first quarter as crypto enthusiasts seem ready to embrace easing...
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Overall, the first quarter of 2025 marked the strongest one for venture investment since Q2 2022. Funding was up 17% quarter over quarter from the...
The Nasdaq Composite Index was down a staggering 4.8% in midday trading today, following President Trump’s decision to impose sweeping tariffs on...
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