At least 95,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2024, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the cuts are continuing into 2025. See who the latest companies are to cut roles.
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Peer-to-peer car rental platform Turo became the latest venture unicorn to withdraw plans for a public offering.
An estimated 517 global unicorns — or private companies valued at $1 billion or more — raised their last known round more than three years ago, per...
The path to IPO has become slower and more arduous for companies looking for an exit, writes Fiunder Shield's COO Carl Niedbala. In this guest...
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Along with a sizzling AI market, other trends that emerged from our reporting and data include a cooler seed funding environment and hotter M&A...
In this guest commentary, Rebecca Kacaba, CEO and co-founder of DealMaker, writes that in 2025, retail investors will reshape IPO strategies...
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Achieving IPO readiness goes beyond executing on the IPO transaction itself. In this guest commentary Nithya B. Das of Diligent Corp. lays out some...
Last month, the companies on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board topped $1 trillion in collective funding for the first time, marking a new milestone for...
The startup world begins 2025 on a decidedly more upbeat note than it did the previous year. The renewed optimism is in part due to the modest uptick...
North American venture funding spiked in the final quarter of 2024, closing out an up year for startup investment driven by continued momentum around...
Although 2024 was an exceptionally lackluster year for new public offerings, the IPO market could gain momentum in 2025. In that vein, the Crunchbase...
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