In the decade-plus since Playground Global's founding, it has built its investment thesis around the idea that breakthroughs in science and engineering — not just software — would create the next generation of valuable companies. Company co-founder...
Seed funding
With a strong focus on logistics, payroll, construction and other sectors, San Francisco-based Base10 Partners has raised two funds totaling $850...
Seed rounds are larger than ever, with some startups now raising $8 million to $10 million deals once associated with later stages. But the path...
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month are working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a...
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, tech giants like...
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Saile, which just raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, is building an AI-powered credentialing and staffing platform designed to help physicians...
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...
In 2025, the Bay Area expanded its dominance of U.S. seed funding — capturing a growing share of both deals and dollars — even as most startups...
Since 2024, an estimated 207 AI-focused companies have joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board. That’s roughly half of all companies that first hit...
More than half of seed dollars last year went into deals of $10 million or above. At the same time, deal counts for seed-stage startups have fallen...
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...
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