After a slow Thanksgiving week, investors made up for lost time with a slew of big-money rounds. VCs spread their cash around pretty liberally...
Fintech & e-commerce
Last month, xAI and Anthropic raised a combined $9 billion as AI funding remained red-hot. Other sectors, including IT management and robotics, also...
Investment platform Public announced it has raised $135 million in equity and debt financing amid sharp growth in adoption of its AI-enabled research...
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A flurry of startups in the wealth management space focused on opening up once-exclusive options to more of the masses are getting funded to the tune...
Vermont, Hawaii and Arkansas aren’t on the short list of states likely to serve as home to the next Silicon Valley contender. However, by one measure...
Could the upsurge awaken the long-slumbering M&A market for crypto startups, especially as funding has dipped in the sector for a few years and many...
Five companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in October 2024, across sectors spanning AI, energy, robotics, fintech and professional services...
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San Francisco-based Writer locked up a $200 million Series C that values the enterprise-focused generative AI platform at $1.9 billion.
Prices of the two most popular cryptocurrencies soared Wednesday as former President Donald Trump seemed certain to reclaim the White House.
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In Q3, there were 479 M&A deals globally for VC-backed startups, per Crunchbase data. That’s a very small drop from the 500 deals consummated in Q2 —...
OpenAI led the way last month and it really wasn’t even close. However, there were lots of other big raises — as a startup had to raise more than...
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