The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies developing AI inference technology, a video-creation platform, data centers and voice-to-text tools.
Startups
This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or...
Our third in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Tabs founder Ali Hussain, who started the AI fintech after...
The best boards continuously evaluate selling alongside scaling, pivoting, or staying independent, especially when the company is thriving, founder...
![Illustration of a blue unicorn with a green money background. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/Unicorn_Money_v3-470x352.jpg)
So far this year, 250 companies have joined the unicorn ranks through Aug. 15, up from 2025's 193 companies. Leading sectors included robotics, AI...
![Illustration of various physical AI. [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/physical-ai-470x352.jpg)
In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up...
Massive AI spending has helped push earnings and valuations for semiconductor industry leaders to record levels, prompting the sector's giants to...
Databricks is back raising another $5 billion, after it raised that amount just eight months ago. The largest fundings this week also went to an AI...
The sectors leading the herd to the Unicorn Board in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and...
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued...
Our second in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Sarah Buchner, a "blue-collar worker by background" who...
![Illustration of a guy watering plants with a blocked hose - Global [Dom Guzman]](https://news.crunchbase.com/wp-content/uploads/quarterly-global-3-300x168.jpg)
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