While many venture investors enter 2025 fairly optimistic about startup prospects, other factors are likely to affect the funding environment —...
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2024 has been a year of rapid progress and high expectations for the fintech sector, explains Katherine Maslova of Bourgeois Bohème, but certain...
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Usually the rounds with the most money or biggest-named investors get the headlines, but there were plenty of deals this year that were eye-catching...
Prices of the two most popular cryptocurrencies soared Wednesday as former President Donald Trump seemed certain to reclaim the White House.
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Cybersecurity firm Armis Security closed a $200 million Series D led by Alkeon Capital and General Catalyst.The round boosts the San Francisco-based...
There may have been fewer nine-figure rounds this week, but the ones we did have were massive. Energy and data centers seem to be on everyone’s mind...
It was a mixed bag for Web3 funding last quarter, although investors in the rocky sector the past few years will probably take that.
So far this year, $1.3 billion has been invested in database-related startups — those that provide connectivity, efficiency or other needed...
Lightmatter, a startup that uses light to link chips together and to do calculations for the deep learning necessary for AI, locked up a $400 million...
Eight companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, with six based in the U.S., and two hailing from China and India, respectively.
Funding overall was down for August, and in the U.S. no investor consummated very many deals. Alumni Ventures was the only VC firm to break a double...
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