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It looks like SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 is coming back strong. In the last nearly two quarters, the fund has participated in 13 funding rounds — many of them large and many of them involving artificial intelligence.
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The Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative team analyzed 2,791 founders behind 1,110 U.S.-based VC-backed unicorns to understand their professional...
Quite a few players in the global economy are instantly affected by exchange-rate fluctuations. Unfortunately, it’s also something over which they...
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When it comes to AI investment, the San Francisco Bay Area leads by a long shot, but there are many other metros vying for runner-up status. We take...
While the year started out hot for large megaround deals, it has slowed considerably. Just three startups raised nine-figure rounds this week and you...
Although global venture funding rose overall in 2024, it wasn’t a particularly strong year for emerging economies. Even so, there were a few...
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Improving AI performance through reinforcement learning from human feedback added a travel assistant feature to travel publisher Matador Network. In...
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Although 2024 was an exceptionally lackluster year for new public offerings, the IPO market could gain momentum in 2025. In that vein, the Crunchbase...
After another slow year in 2024 for new tech listings, there is an expectation that the IPO markets will pick up in 2025. A year ago, the outlook was...
AI startup Safe Superintelligence’s $1 billion round — for a startup that’s existed for only a few months — easily led the way. However, it wasn’t...
A rather odd week in venture, as the biggest rounds were raised by greentech, business travel and charity startups. Of course, biotech and fintech...
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