Procurement startup Zip saw its valuation jump 47% after raising a $190 million Series D led by Bond.
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There may have been fewer nine-figure rounds this week, but the ones we did have were massive. Energy and data centers seem to be on everyone’s mind...
There was a time when raising over a billion dollars as an AI startup was enough to warrant a little name recognition. Not anymore. We ranked the...
It was a mixed bag for Web3 funding last quarter, although investors in the rocky sector the past few years will probably take that.
So far this year, $1.3 billion has been invested in database-related startups — those that provide connectivity, efficiency or other needed...
Lightmatter, a startup that uses light to link chips together and to do calculations for the deep learning necessary for AI, locked up a $400 million...
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Despite a strong pull from the AI sector, venture investment in the third quarter of 2024 wasn’t able to overcome its now more than two-year-long...
What a week for big rounds — as nine of them hit $100 million or more. While there were no multibillion-dollar rounds like last week, there was still...
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Global startup funding may have slowed in the third quarter, but that slowdown apparently didn’t apply to the most active venture investors, most of...
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After a robust comeback in the second quarter of this year, funding to cybersecurity startups tumbled 51% in Q3 as investors pulled back.
By pattern-matching too strictly to serial founders, VCs may lower their failure rates but also risk excluding themselves from the highest potential...
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