Earlier this week, we wrote about investment trends popping up at seed stage. However, we left out one area where funding activity was so voluminous it warranted its own dedicated piece. Unsurprisingly, it is about AI.
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Thirteen companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May 2025, including five from Europe, Crunchbase data shows.
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In 2021, scores of companies nabbed big rounds at valuations that turned out to be overly optimistic. In the following years many didn’t raise new...
Per Crunchbase data, 279 companies that raised $100 million or more in venture funding haven’t closed new financing since 2021, including quite a few...
Every under-the-radar funded company that caught our eye in May relied heavily on artificial intelligence, whether that was to help farms reduce...
While complicated, tariffs will also likely create new opportunities for American startups, writes guest author Raja Ghawi of VC firm Era Ventures...
Series B offers the classic venture proposition: A still-strong chance of failure, but also a very viable path to a huge return. We take a look at...
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The tariffs are only the latest incident showing how fragile our supply chain ecosystem can be, writes Laura Dow of CPG Sourcing. In this guest...
Harvard ranks high in most metrics related to academic prestige and alumni success. So, it’s not surprising that the 389-year-old institution does...
Seven companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April — a defense tech startup and two each in data, healthcare and security. For at least...
Venture investor DFJ Growth announced it has raised $1.2 billion for a fifth flagship fund, its largest to date.
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