More money is pouring into Series A rounds, but it isn’t opening the door to more startups. U.S. companies have raised $42 billion at that stage this year through October, up roughly 60% year over year, while deal counts remain on pace with the past...
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This week brought another plethora of large funding rounds for startups and growth-stage companies. Shield AI, a defense tech player focused on...
AI chip startups can challenge the sector's Goliath's by building substantially better hardware for emerging inference demands, much as Juniper...
October was a busy month for U.S. startup funding, led by well-known venture investors with a healthy appetite for big deals. We take a look at...
Siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress...
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Companies spanning construction and robotics have raised about $1.6 billion so far this year — more than 4x the $389 million recorded in all of 2025...
So far this year, less than 2% of all startup investment has gone to companies in post-election red states, a share that is much smaller than in...
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued...
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More than half of all seed- through growth-stage venture capital raised in the U.S. so far in 2026 went to seven companies founded or led by men who...
Global venture funding in October totaled $59 billion, a 45% jump from a year earlier, per Crunchbase data, in large part due to a record-setting $15...
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline...
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