While deal counts remain robust for quantum startup investments and big rounds are still getting done, overall funding is on track to decline some from last year’s peaks.
Startups
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...
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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Xpanner, a startup automating construction work by retrofitting construction equipment with robotics and physical AI technology, has raised $18...
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...
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Venture funding to agriculture-related startups in 2026 is on track to be on par or slightly lower than in recent years, while deal count looks to be...
A growing percentage of European venture funding in 2026 was AI-driven. That includes investments in three new frontier model companies as well as...
Another week, another infusion of big AI rounds.
So far in 2026, companies in sales, marketing and CRM categories have pulled in around $2.7 billion globally in seed- through growth-stage funding...
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Fazeshift, a startup that uses AI agents to automate accounts receivable, has raised $17 million in a Series A round of funding, it tells Crunchbase...
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