Defense tech unicorn Anduril Industries led the fundraising lineup in a week heavy with rounds for companies focused on applications in the physical world. Anduril’s $5 billion financing was by far the biggest. Other large rounds went to companies...
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Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a...
![Image of a robotic, AI-powered arm holding a drill, to illustrate automated construction or manufacturing. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/AI-manufacturing-470x352.jpg)
Xpanner, a startup automating construction work by retrofitting construction equipment with robotics and physical AI technology, has raised $18...
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation — double its previous valuation — as defense-tech startups...
A total of 28 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the...
Global venture funding reached $56 billion in April, marking the third-largest monthly funding in a year. Funding was up 100% year over year, an...
Large U.S. venture deals this week were led by a massive defense tech raise for space security startup True Anomaly. We also saw sizable deals for...
Since 2024, an estimated 207 AI-focused companies have joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board. That’s roughly half of all companies that first hit...
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The...
Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up...
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...
![Illustration of a guy watering plants with a blocked hose - Global [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/quarterly-global-3-300x168.jpg)
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