If the current pace of exits persists, it would take 30 years for every U.S. company on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board to go public or be acquired. While it may sound disheartening, it’s actually an improvement from the measure we took nearly a year...
M&A
Last year saw big names including Mastercard, Nvidia and AMD dive into the M&A pond and buy venture-backed AI-related startups. This year, a new...
Q1 2025 was the strongest quarter for startup M&A dollar volume since 2021, totaling $71 billion in reported exit value globally, Crunchbase data...
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Over the past five years, private equity firms have spent more than $56 billion in disclosed-price acquisitions of private, venture-backed companies...
Guest author Rohit Yadav takes us on an exploration of the value chain — VC fundraising, startup fundraising and exits — to see how tariffs are...
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As the ranks of ultra-heavily funded unicorns swell, they’re showing greater willingness to spend large sums to buy complementary startups. For a...
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We take a closer look at the major startup and VC trends in Q1 2025.
Dealmaking involving venture-backed startups is up slightly year to year overall, and part of that uptick is thanks to artificial intelligence, with...
Eleven new companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, adding around $16 billion in value to the board. Another $200 billion in value was...
Spacial computing and AI unicorn Infinite Reality says it will acquire agentic AI company Touchcast in a cash and stock deal valued at $500 million.
Dealmaking involving VC-backed startups jumped 26% year to year in Q1, but stayed pretty steady from the final quarter of 2024 even as many hoped for...
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