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Crunchbase News Research Lead Gené Teare moderated panels and spoke with leaders building Europe and the Middle East’s AI ecosystems at HumanX in Amsterdam. Here we share a snippet of her conversation with Axelera AI CEO Fabrizio Del Maffeo and AI71...
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Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued...
From January through August, U.S. tech layoffs reached at least 94,046, up 16.8% from 80,486 in the same period of 2025. Interestingly, and...
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Van Espahbodi, general parter at Generational Partners, discusses how AI is changing hardware economics, why...
Iman Abuzeid left clinical medicine to tackle healthcare problems at scale, co-founding Incredible Health, a hiring platform that reverses...
Monashees, one of Latin America's oldest and most influential VC firms, believes the next phase of the region's startup ecosystem requires a...
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Companies unlock AI’s biggest productivity gains not by adding AI tools to existing workflows, but by redesigning teams, roles and daily work around...
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Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows...
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Ethan Choi, a partner at Khosla Ventures, recently spoke to Crunchbase News about AI's impact, why he thinks entry-level jobs could be disappearing...
The dollars involved in startup M&A deals appear to be up significantly this year, though deal counts are not. Still, numerous M&A market watchers we...
In the second installment of a three-part series, guest authors Mark Himmelsbach and Remy Pinson write that while founders are being forced to adapt...
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