Nearly half of food service employers today say they need more workers. Theoretically, automation could go a long way to ease the labor shortage.
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All in all, it was another strong week for big rounds. The top 10 list also includes three new unicorns.
Ten new unicorns added more than $18 billion in value to The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in February, but one company was also downgraded from unicorn...
While investors debated whether to bet on image-generation AI or medtech AI last year, several extremely consequential startup sectors ended up being...
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Amid a period of widespread construction labor shortages and rising building costs, investors have poured hundreds of millions into startups at the...
![Illustration of robot nesting doll. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/AI_robotics_Nesting_Doll-470x352.jpg)
After a significant slowdown through the first half of 2022, some of the biggest sectors in deep tech — also called “frontier” and “hard tech” —...
While the deal for Epic Games is tied for the largest round this year in the U.S., there were a good number of other large deals as well.
Although it may be a different year, AI is still big and doing intriguing things, while humanoids are becoming more viable and space is getting...
We look back at some of the most high-profile companies with disclosed values in 2023 that raised at significant markups, as well as those that saw...
Usually, as December wears on, startups announce fewer and fewer big rounds. However, that was not the case this week, as five companies announced...
Gecko Robotics, which creates robots to assess the safety and condition of critical infrastructure, has raised an additional $100 million in a Series...
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