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...
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Travel & tourism
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...
Denver-based business travel startup Engine has closed a $140 million Series C at a $2.1 billion valuation as the sector continues to bounce back...
It was another big month for megadeals. You had to raise more than $150 million to make the top 10 list this month — as investors put money into...
Using Crunchbase data, we identified a sample set of 28 private companies that have a peak valuation of $1 billion or more but haven’t raised a round...
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