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Investors poured $280 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies in 2025, per Crunchbase data, the highest annual total in four years.
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Using Crunchbase’s predictive intelligence tools — which evaluate factors including funding history, growth signals, investor mix and market timing —...
To get a sense of the startup funding outlook for the year ahead, Crunchbase News reached out to four investors who share their predictions for what...
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...
The IPO market for new technology listings picked up in 2025. So far this year, at least 23 U.S.-based companies have listed above $1 billion in...
There’s no hyperbole in stating that Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind social media platform Truth Social, is breaking new ground...
After three slow years, unicorn exits have finally picked up in 2025, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. IPO counts for unicorn-valued companies...
At least 126,352 workers at U.S.-based tech companies have been laid off in mass job cuts so far in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the cuts...
SpaceX is forging ahead with plans for an initial public offering to raise “significantly” more than $30 billion, sources told Bloomberg. The Elon...
So far this year, per Crunchbase data, investors have poured close to $2 billion into an assortment of companies across stages working on nuclear...
Ever since the startup IPO boom of 2020-2022 came to a conclusion, market watchers keep trying to predict when we’ll see another. Hopes that 2025...
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