There's nothing more disheartening than experiencing a First Board Meeting Surprise, that sinking sensation of investor-CEO disagreement in that...
M&A
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Ripple, a San Francisco-based crypto payments startup, has raised $500 million at a $40 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Over the past couple years, the top tech giants have made comparatively few big-ticket purchases of venture-backed companies. The Big Five have...
Since its 2012 inception, Coinbase has acquired dozens of companies and has been keeping up the pace. We take a look at what caught the publicly...
Crunchbase News recently spoke with Kyle Pretsch, a general partner at Bambu Ventures, about the firm's unique gambit of agreeing to buy telemedicine...
In total, investors put just over $3.3 billion globally into seed- through growth-stage rounds for cybersecurity-focused companies, per Crunchbase...
Campfire, a San Francisco-based AI-powered accounting startup, has raised $65 million in a Series B round just months after closing on its Series A.
Expense management startup Ramp has acquired the team of an AI startup, with the intent of making its engineers “as productive as possible,” the...
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Global venture funding gained significantly in Q3 2025, closing up 38% year over year, Crunchbase data shows, as massive funding deals, particularly...
As we enter Q4 2025, the long-awaited middle-market M&A boom many in the industry have forecasted has yet to materialize, writes guest author Michael...
Venture investors continue to plow billions of dollars into human resources software, Crunchbase data shows. While funding is on pace to top last...
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