Funding to North American startups surged in the first half of 2025, fueled by investor enthusiasm around artificial intelligence, overall pouring...
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ServiceUp, a platform that automates and manages the vehicle repair process, has raised $55 million in a Series B round of funding led by PeakSpan...
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Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain to help sales agents and wholesale...
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Global venture funding ticked up year over year in Q2 2025, reaching $91 billion, with a greater concentration of capital into the largest funding...
Venture investment in fashion-related AI startups has risen or held steady in the past five-plus years, even as overall VC funding has fallen from...
The list of most-active U.S. investors by deal count and dollars invested this past month includes mostly familiar names, but we also saw Meta join...
From semiconductors to personal computing to online search to AI, the leading companies of successive technology eras have originated in or around...
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In Index Ventures' new book, the authors argue that despite a perception that European founders are turning away from global expansion, the most...
Overlooking operators-turned-investors doesn't just represent missed opportunities, writes Recast Capital's Sara Zulkosky. In this guest commentary...
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Tel Aviv-based cloud security provider Cato Networks announced Monday that it raised $359 million in Series G funding at a valuation of more than $4...
Of the nearly 1,600 companies on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board, a small but ultra-elite club of private companies valued at $5 billion or more is...
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