Our second in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Sarah Buchner, a "blue-collar worker by background" who set out to find a way to help construction companies manage their projects more efficiently using AI...
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We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.
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Crunchbase News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies...
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So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with...
A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI...
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion...
U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the way. Houston-based...
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Xpanner, a startup automating construction work by retrofitting construction equipment with robotics and physical AI technology, has raised $18...
U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds in the first quarter of 2026 per...
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Rebar, a New York-based startup building an AI-generated quote system for commercial HVAC suppliers, told Crunchbase News exclusively that it has...
While the first couple months of the year brought a steady stream of market entries from companies in sectors such as construction tech, space tech...
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