In an interview with Crunchbase News, Van Espahbodi, general parter at Generational Partners, discusses how AI is changing hardware economics, why software investors are rushing into industrial technology, and what he believes many of them...
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U.S. venture-backed technology companies have secured around $90 billion in domestic public offerings this year, per Crunchbase data. That’s already...
It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding, with four companies each raising $1 billion or more. The Boring Co. led with a $3 billion Series D...
A total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, adding around $63 billion in value to the board. More than a third of the...
Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies...
Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has raised a...
We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for...
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So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with...
A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI...
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