The first full week of 2026 brought us a whopping $20 billion new funding round for Elon Musk’s xAI. We also counted multiple other rounds of more than $100 million.
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Andreessen Horowitz announced $15 billion in new funds, its largest fundraising haul to date, with the firm promising to back startups in AI, crypto...
Rain, which is building infrastructure for payments with stablecoins, has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round led by Iconiq. Its post...
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The most active post-seed startup investors in the past got busier in 2025, which is not that surprising given that it was the strongest year for...
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Since the new millennium, $4.2 trillion has been invested into the global startup economy, producing 97,982 scaleups, per research from Mind The...
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Investors poured $280 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies in 2025, per Crunchbase data, the highest annual...
After three years of declining or flat venture investment, global startup funding grew year over year in 2025 with venture and growth investors...
With record investment to AI companies hungry for faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient processing power, it's no surprise that U.S...
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Using Crunchbase’s predictive intelligence tools — which evaluate factors including funding history, growth signals, investor mix and market timing —...
To get a sense of the startup funding outlook for the year ahead, Crunchbase News reached out to four investors who share their predictions for what...
A total of 15 companies secured venture funding rounds of $2 billion or more last year, per Crunchbase data. Among them, they amassed more than $100...
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