Venture-backed sports merchandiser Fanatics drafted its own superstar this week with the hiring of former Meta head of investor relations Deborah...
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Bed Bath & Beyond may be shuttering, but the vision it sold lives on. An analysis of Crunchbase data unearthed a decent cohort of recently funded...
In the past couple weeks, we saw at least two examples of big-ticket startup acquisitions that worked out poorly.
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The fresh funding put Kream's valuation at $742 million.
Boxed was once a startup investor darling that set out to remake the warehouse bulk-buying experience for the online age.
Shein is in talks to raise $2 billion in funding while it makes a game plan for going public in the second half of this year.
Startups in cyber, defense and biotech all saw some large rounds in a week that for once was not dominated by artificial intelligence.
Some under-the-radar startups that received funding last month include a predictive news platform, a crypto search engine and of course lots of AI.
Chicago is known for having one of the most varied economies of any major U.S. city, with a heavy dose of health care, education, finance...
February may be the shortest month of the year, but there were still some large rounds in that short time period.
Big rounds dominated last week, but this week were hard to come by with only two companies raising nine-figure rounds.
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