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Fintech Funding Jumped 27% In 2025 With Fewer Deals But Bigger Checks

Mary Ann Azevedo

January 15, 2026

Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data...

Artificial intelligence • Robotics • Startups • Venture

Robotics Startup Skild AI Lands $1.4B, Tripling Valuation To $14B In Just 7 Months

Mary Ann Azevedo

January 14, 2026

Skild AI, a robotics company building an “omni-bodied” brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion...

Artificial intelligence • Quarterly and annual reports • Regional • Seed funding • Startups • Transportation & Logistics • Venture

Asian Startup Funding Fell In 2025 But Rose In Q4

Joanna Glasner

January 14, 2026

In total, investors poured $67.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies across Asia last year, per Crunchbase data...

Artificial intelligence • Communications tech • Funding reports • Startups • Venture

Exclusive: Flip Raises $20M Series A For Its Verticalized Approach To AI-Based Customer Service

Mary Ann Azevedo

January 13, 2026

Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it...

Artificial intelligence • Regional • Startups • Venture

LatAm Startup Funding Rebounds In 2025 As Mexico Sees Surge In Investment And VCs Remain Bullish On Region

Mary Ann Azevedo

January 13, 2026

Latin America startup investment climbed by 14.3% in 2025, driven by a boost in both early- and late-stage funding, Crunchbase data shows. 

Artificial intelligence • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Robotics • Startups • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI Leads As 2026 Is Off To A Brisk Start

Joanna Glasner

January 9, 2026

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...

Artificial intelligence • Defense tech • Startups • Venture

A16z Raises $15B In New Funds, Its Largest Haul To Date, Promises To Back Startups Advancing U.S. Interests

Marlize van Romburgh

January 9, 2026

Andreessen Horowitz announced $15 billion in new funds, its largest fundraising haul to date, with the firm promising to back startups in AI, crypto...

Crypto • Fintech & e-commerce • Startups • Venture

Stablecoin Startup Rain Raises $250M Series C at $1.95B Valuation – Its Third Round In Less Than A Year

Mary Ann Azevedo

January 9, 2026

Rain, which is building infrastructure for payments with stablecoins, has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round led by Iconiq. Its post...

Artificial intelligence • Quarterly and annual reports • Seed funding • Startups • Venture

Large American VCs Topped 2025 Active Investor Ranks, Including A16Z, Accel And Sequoia

Joanna Glasner

January 9, 2026

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...

Regional • Startups • Venture

The Startup Economy: Nothing Seems To Move, But Everything Does

Guest Author

January 9, 2026

Since the new millennium, $4.2 trillion has been invested into the global startup economy, producing 97,982 scaleups, per research from Mind The...

Artificial intelligence • Enterprise • IPO • M&A • Quarterly and annual reports • Regional • SaaS • Seed funding • Venture

North American Startup Funding Soared 46% In 2025, Driven By AI Boom

Joanna Glasner

January 8, 2026

Investors poured $280 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies in 2025, per Crunchbase data, the highest annual...