Along with the usual heavy dose of AI, this week’s list also includes large deals for aerospace and defense, fintech, and retail technology.
Health, Wellness & Biotech
Gaia uses artificial intelligence and machine learning — trained on millions of anonymized historical data points and fertility outcomes — to better...
Defense tech unicorn Anduril Industries led the fundraising lineup in a week heavy with rounds for companies focused on applications in the physical...
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Saile, which just raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, is building an AI-powered credentialing and staffing platform designed to help physicians...
A total of 28 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the...
S-1 filings have been plentiful the past few weeks for venture-backed startups providing semiconductors, nuclear and geothermal power, biotech, and...
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Eli Lilly announced Monday that it is acquiring Kelonia Therapeutics, a developer of gene therapies with a particular focus on cancer treatment, in a...
The week’s largest round was a $650 million financing for electric pickup truck maker Slate Auto. Other sizable investments went to spaces including...
Although the conventional wisdom in tech is that real ambition means staying independent, sometimes joining forces through an acquisition by a large...
European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second...
While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospace...
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