Thirteen companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May 2025, including five from Europe, Crunchbase data shows.
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Octaura, developer of a syndicated loan platform, has raised $46.5 million in a funding round which included participation from a group of banking...
Anysphere, which sells the popular AI coding assistant Cursor, confirmed that it raised a $900 million round at a staggering $9.9 billion valuation.
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Quantum computing company IonQ announced Monday that it will acquire quantum systems developer Oxford Ionics in a mostly stock deal valued at $1.07...
Venture dealmakers kept busy in May, with a handful of especially active U.S. investors leading the way. It was also a standout period for large...
Software may be eating the world, but it was hardware-intensive startups that scooped up this week’s largest funding rounds, including heavily funded...
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In 2021, scores of companies nabbed big rounds at valuations that turned out to be overly optimistic. In the following years many didn’t raise new...
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has raised $2.5 billion in a Series G round of funding, more than doubling its valuation to $30.5 billion...
While Elon Musk’s Neuralink is the most well-funded of the group, other companies working on computer-brain interfaces have also raised significant...
Cohere, a generative AI startup, is seeking to raise over $500 million at a valuation of more than $5.5 billion, according to Financial Times.
Global venture funding reached $21.8 billion in May 2025, down 13% quarter over quarter and down a third year over year, Crunchbase data shows.
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