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...
Health, Wellness & Biotech
![Illustration of a blue unicorn with a green money background. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/Unicorn_Money_v3-470x352.jpg)
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...
![Computer generating AI data. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/AI-generated-470x352.jpg)
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...
We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by...
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI...
![Image of founder getting a "Blank check" [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/rise-of-massive-funding-blank-check-470x352.jpg)
So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with...
A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI...
![Illustration of a guy watering plants with a blocked hose - Global [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/quarterly-global-3-300x168.jpg)
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