Over the past two calendar years, acquirers have agreed to pay more than $38 billion to purchase venture-backed companies in Crunchbase biotech industry categories. So far, 2026 is off to a brisk start as well.
Health, Wellness & Biotech
This week featured a lot of funding deals with a lot of zeroes on the end. Generative AI powerhouse Anthropic, of course, boasted the most zeroes...
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...
Well-known firms topped the ranks of active investors in January, including a few that were best known as prolific dealmakers during the last market...
Global venture funding posted strong gains in January, with $55 billion invested in startups around the world, Crunchbase data shows, with funding...
Veradermics, a developer of an oral treatment for pattern hair loss, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange with shares more than doubling in...
Crunchbase News sat down with Sriram Viswanathan, founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, to discuss why the secondary market is accelerating...
This week’s largest fundraising recipient was frontier AI lab Recursive Intelligence, and agentic AI, AI-compute, and AI-native startups filled up...
A dynamic we’re seeing more of at seed and Series A is the number of unusually large rounds that has been creeping up in recent quarters.
The momentum of new unicorn creation picked up in the final four months of 2025, with the fourth quarter showing the highest count of newly minted...
Venture investors' thirst for AI isn’t close to quenched yet. That’s the takeaway from this week’s lineup of large U.S. funding rounds, which was...
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