Semiconductors, financial services and space technology led for new Unicorn Board counts with the remainder hailing from a broad swath of industries including biotech, AI infrastructure, AI training, security and frontier labs.
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Over the past year, venture backers have poured close to $3 billion into good-sized rounds for marine-related startups in sectors ranging from...
From January through August, U.S. tech layoffs reached at least 94,046, up 16.8% from 80,486 in the same period of 2025. Interestingly, and...
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Van Espahbodi, general parter at Generational Partners, discusses how AI is changing hardware economics, why...
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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.
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