Venture investors' thirst for AI isn’t close to quenched yet. That’s the takeaway from this week’s lineup of large U.S. funding rounds, which was...
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Banking giant Capital One announced on Thursday that it is acquiring fintech startup Brex for $5.15 billion in a cash and stock deal, in what Brex...
The startup, which has built AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, has raised $18 million in a Series A round at a...
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The IPO window looked pretty open as the year commenced. But it also looks like it could be slamming down.
Venture investment in the fitness and wellness space hit a cyclical low last year, Crunchbase data shows, with just over $5 billion in reported...
OpenEvidence, an AI platform for doctors, announced Wednesday it has raised $250 million in a Series D funding round that doubled its valuation to...
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Venture funding to Europe-based startups last year gained only slightly, around 9% year over year, reaching $58 billion, with AI emerging as the...
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Humans&, a new company founded by top researchers from Google, Anthropic, xAI, OpenAI and Meta, among others, announced Tuesday that it has raised a...
On the heels of the rise of global venture funding to fintech and financial services startups last year, investors in the space say they expect...
The pace of big funding rounds continued to hold up at brisk levels this past week, led by a $1.4 billion financing for “robot brain” developer Skild...
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Overall, investors put $18 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in Crunchbase security and privacy categories last year...
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