October turned out to be a pretty busy month for many of the big names in venture and was led again by Andreessen Horowitz.
Startups
Global venture capital funding in October reached $32 billion, marking the highest month for startup investment so far in 2024.
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In Q3, there were 479 M&A deals globally for VC-backed startups, per Crunchbase data. That’s a very small drop from the 500 deals consummated in Q2 —...
So far in 2024, just 118 small and midsized U.S. startup investors — excluding funds operated by firms that have raised $2 billion or more in total —...
Physical Intelligence, a startup developing brains for a wide array of robots, raised a $400 million round at a $2 billion valuation led by Jeff...
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Some of the most famous startup success stories feature companies adept at being both serious and ridiculous. Then, things got boring.
There may not have been a $1 billion raise this week, but large money deals did abound. Two U.S. startups raised half a billion dollars apiece, and...
Customer feedback can be considered one of the most important factors for improving or building a product. Guest author Serge Gusev, co-founder and...
OpenAI led the way last month and it really wasn’t even close. However, there were lots of other big raises — as a startup had to raise more than...
Sooner or later, most startups will face a power struggle and founders need to be ready for it. In this guest commentary, Roman Axelrod, founder of...
While there were skeptics of OpenAI’s $6.6 billion raise, the gold rush it caused seems ready to push even more AI startups’ valuations to heights...
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