Google last year partook in the largest number of startup deals in recent years, Crunchbase data shows, and those rounds had the highest collective...
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All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase...
Crunchbase News sat down with Sriram Viswanathan, founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, to discuss why the secondary market is accelerating...
This week’s largest fundraising recipient was frontier AI lab Recursive Intelligence, and agentic AI, AI-compute, and AI-native startups filled up...
Last year was the third-strongest on record for global venture funding with a surprisingly strong year for IPOs and an uptick in startup M&A numbers...
In recent quarters, California’s dominance in startup funding has grown even more pronounced, pulling in 63% of all U.S. startup funding at seed...
A dynamic we’re seeing more of at seed and Series A is the number of unusually large rounds that has been creeping up in recent quarters.
Northwood Space, which builds infrastructure that lets satellites communicate with Earth, announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a...
The momentum of new unicorn creation picked up in the final four months of 2025, with the fourth quarter showing the highest count of newly minted...
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Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab, announced on Monday that it has raised $300 million in a Series A round of funding at a $4 billion...
Zocks, a builder of an AI assistant for financial advisers, has raised $45 million in a Series B funding co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and...
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