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The SpaceX offering caps a remarkable journey for a company that has raised nearly $12 billion in private investment since its founding in 2002 to become the world’s most valuable venture-backed startup. Along the way, the company helped redefine...
Public Markets
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A public SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic would become some of the best-capitalized acquirers on the planet, writes MGV's Marc Schröder, who explains...
Not only is a round of $100 million not remarkably large anymore, it’s not even atypical.
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued...
The semiconductor startup space continues to sizzle. So far in 2026, investors have poured around $10 billion into seed through pre-IPO rounds for...
A total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May, but the standout trend was not new AI models, but rather the businesses helping...
All told, global venture funding reached $92 billion in May, marking the second-largest monthly total on record, just behind February, Crunchbase...
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Anthropic said Monday that it has submitted a confidential filing for a proposed IPO, marking an escalation in the race among generative AI behemoths...
The threshold for going public has steadily risen, leaving many mid-sized firms and their shareholders without viable exit opportunities, writes...
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The SpaceX IPO Filing Looks Nothing Like Those Of The Elite Group Of Tech Giants It’s Hoping To Join
SpaceX filed its public IPO prospectus Wednesday, highlighting many amazing things that it has accomplished in its reach for a trillion-dollar-plus...
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Just through mid-May, China-based robotics companies have already raised $5.6 billion across 176 deals this year, Crunchbase data shows, a sum...
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