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In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in Crunchbase cleantech, EV and sustainability-focused categories. That puts funding on track to slightly exceed the 2025 tally, which...
Liquidity
The artificial intelligence space saw two major developments last week that highlight how technology companies are trying to manage the soaring costs...
Venture firm Menlo Ventures has raised $3 billion across two new funds, the largest capital raise in its 50-year history, to invest in AI startups...
So far in 2026, U.S. companies have pulled in nearly 80% of global seed- through growth-stage financing, per Crunchbase data. That’s a sharp...
Founders should evaluate investors’ financial health as carefully as their market thesis, writes guest author Marc Schröder, who emphasizes they...
The threshold for going public has steadily risen, leaving many mid-sized firms and their shareholders without viable exit opportunities, writes...
Payments infrastructure giant Stripe announced Tuesday that it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and former employees...
Historically, many of the most transformative companies went public early and built the majority of their value under the discipline and funding of...
There's a a growing shift among high-growth startups of rewarding employees with liquidity long before an IPO is in sight. Crunchbase News recently...
Crunchbase News sat down with Sriram Viswanathan, founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, to discuss why the secondary market is accelerating...
Many tech startups that raised money at inflated valuations during the 2021 bubble are now struggling as market multiples contract and cash runs out...
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