AI infrastructure dominated the largest venture rounds this week, with two multibillion-dollar deals in the sector taking the top spots. Data center and cloud provider Crusoe led with a massive $3 billion financing, followed by Fluidstack’s $1.5...
Health, Wellness & Biotech
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...
While the AI boom has disrupted funding patterns across the startup sphere, biotech has remained a rare steady sector for investment. For the past...
Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
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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...
This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or...
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So far this year, 250 companies have joined the unicorn ranks through Aug. 15, up from 2025's 193 companies. Leading sectors included robotics, AI...
Databricks is back raising another $5 billion, after it raised that amount just eight months ago. The largest fundings this week also went to an AI...
The sectors leading the herd to the Unicorn Board in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and...
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Venture investors seem to be more upbeat than they have been in years about the future of fitness and wellness. Startup investment in those...
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more...
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