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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 market. We provide a look with a dozen charts that underscore the major trends in startups leading into...
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Although global venture funding rose overall in 2024, it wasn’t a particularly strong year for emerging economies. Even so, there were a few...
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While the fourth quarter showed a little resilience — bouncing back after a slow Q3 — the Asia venture market has proven a bumpy, if not entirely...
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Funding to Europe-based startups settled year over year in 2024. Funding reached $51 billion, down by 5% year over year from $54 billion invested in...
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Latin America startup investment closed out 2024 on an up note, with the fourth quarter delivering the highest aggregate funding of the year.
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Funding to Latin American startups appears to have stabilized in recent quarters. However, investment remains far, far below the record highs reached...
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Venture funding to European startups reached $10 billion in Q3 2024 — the lowest quarter since the third quarter of 2020, Crunchbase data shows.
Total venture dollars to Asia-based startups fell to $13.2 billion — its smallest total since it hit $13 billion in Q1 2015 — according to Crunchbase...
We talked to Faisal Aftab, founder of Pakistan-based Zayn Venture Capital, about the country’s underfunded startup scene, his plans to boost funding...
As a follow-up to our interview with VC and "Shark Tank Pakistan" judge Faisal Aftab, we provide a more comprehensive look at some of the Pakistan...
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Despite the local unrest and economic uncertainty, the Israeli tech industry has shown resilience, especially with M&A trends since the start of 2024...
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