The five most-valuable technology companies have plenty of money to invest in startups. They’re in a particularly strong position today, with shares of each up sharply last year. Even so, for the most part, they did not go on a venture investment...
Venture
For the final article in our AI investor series for 2024, we spoke with Citi Ventures, one of the more active corporate venture investors through the...
The startup ecosystem is abuzz with the transformative promise of generative AI, but the excitement may come at a cost, explains Yael Benjamin...
In the past three months, investors have plowed close to $1.2 billion into a geographically dispersed group of online banking providers, Crunchbase...
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Will the M&A market pick up next year and, with it, the IPO pipeline? And what about the tech job market? Every year, we offer up some predictions...
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Has AI hype exceeded its reality? Guest author Rob Biederman explains why he expects 2025 to represent a further return to sanity with distinct...
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AI cloud infrastructure startup Vultr raised $333 million in growth financing at a $3.5 billion valuation, marking the decade-old startup’s first...
While many venture investors enter 2025 fairly optimistic about startup prospects, other factors are likely to affect the funding environment —...
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Databricks raised $10 billion at a $62 billion valuation, marking the largest venture capital raise of 2024 and one of the largest on record — even...
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While the venture market in 2024 continued to wobble well below its pandemic-induced highs, VCs and those close to the industry are cautiously...
In a Monday joint appearance with President-Elect Donald Trump, SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son announced plans to invest $100 billion in U.S...
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