OpenAI's new $500 billion valuation is the most dramatic example of a broader trend: Hot private companies posting huge and often sharply rising valuations.| Crunchbase News
More than 200 private U.S. biotechs with $50 million or more in funding to date secured their last reported financing between three and five years ago. The list includes at least 15 biotech unicorns and emerging unicorns.| Crunchbase News
Current market conditions have challenged the reliability of IPOs, forcing many companies to reevaluate their paths to public markets, writes guest author Carl Niedbala of Founder Shield. In this commentary he explains why companies are facing these challenges and how they can adapt and explore alternative strategies.| Crunchbase News
As AI reshapes industries, True Ventures sees echoes of the Web 2.0 era that launched it decades ago. With more than 80 AI investments, True is focusing on the application layer, where it expects the next decade’s most valuable companies to emerge.| Crunchbase News
Using Crunchbase data, we put together a sample list of 15 recently launched venture investors that are leading good-sized rounds, most of which have a unicorn or two in their portfolios.| Crunchbase News
The gold miners are outperforming gold, a trend which is long overdue. The miners have operational gearing and are supposed to lead the gold price during gold bull markets.| ByteTree
Big Tech and VC firms led the way in billion-dollar rounds going to AI companies in 2025, according to Crunchbase data. With a collective $73 billion raised, we take a look at the spendiest big investors in the sector.| Crunchbase News
Eight Sleep, a New York-based startup developing “sleep fitness” products, announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a new funding round.| Crunchbase News
A handful of coastal metros, led by the San Francisco Bay Area, have long swallowed up the lion’s share of venture funding, and while the latest data shows that's not changing, the remaining states haven’t bowed out by any measure.| Crunchbase News
Discover why AI startups in the South are a prime investment opportunity. Download our latest pipeline insight report to explore top talent, strategic market trends, and thriving enterprise customers. The post South US Showing Unique AI Startup Strength appeared first on Valor Ventures.| Valor Ventures
Doug is one of the world's leading experts on "single button" cloud infrastructure recovery. His startup Arpio is relied on by airlines, tech leaders, and more to provide the assurance they remain serving their customers. The post Valor Visionaries: Doug Neumann of Arpio on Web3 Resilience appeared first on Valor Ventures.| Valor Ventures
Will startup funding maintain its momentum in H2 2025? To get a sense of what investors are seeing for the rest of the year, we spoke with VCs from Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, Bain Capital Ventures and Left Lane Capital who told us how their firms decide to invest, and why AI infrastructure and applications are getting so much attention right now.| Crunchbase News
All the bankers we know are incredibly busy, but they do not have much to show for it. The capital markets are log-jammed and it is not clear what it will take to free them.| Digits to Dollars
We are pleased to announce that we have raised a new fund to continue our network-driven investing. Foundry 2022 is a $500 million fund that invests in early-stage technology companies and early-stage venture funds. We began investing the fund in 2022 and are excited to continue partnering with founders, GPs, and LPs. We transitioned to […] The post Announcing Foundry 2022 appeared first on Foundry.| Foundry
Our healthcare system stands at a critical juncture. Skyrocketing costs, widespread physician burnout, and overwhelming administrative complexities lead to limited access to quality care and, ultimately, compromised patient outcomes. Health systems are acutely aware of these issues and urgently seeking a better way forward. The promise of technology, particularly AI, offers the potential for transformation […] The post Our Investment in Ferrum Health appeared first on Foundry.| Foundry
Earlier this year, we announced that our current fund, Foundry 2022, will be the final Foundry fund. We are excited to complete the initial work of building the Foundry 2022 portfolio over the next 18 months. As stewards of capital to our LPs and engaged partners to our portfolio companies, we are all in on […] The post A Note to Colorado Entrepreneurs appeared first on Foundry.| Foundry
Kruze Consulting's VP of FP&A, Healy Jones, presents a 101 guide to everything you need to know about working capital for startup businesses.| kruzeconsulting.com
Tally, a San Francisco-based startup that helped people manage and pay off their credit card debt, has closed its doors.| Crunchbase News
Vancouver-based legal tools platform Clio locked up a $900 million Series F at a $3 billion valuation — the largest round ever for a Canadian startup.| Crunchbase News
A spate of billion-dollar fundings contributed to May's funding total, with $11 billion — over a third of capital raised last month — invested in six companies in rounds at $1 billion or more.| Crunchbase News
Much of the venture landscape is adrift at sea, with no land in sight.| Digits to Dollars
Complex systems of life often contain a multitude of shortcuts: sources of alpha which, should you choose to exploit them, give notable advantage. Many classes of these shortcuts are features rather than bugs, and it is no accident of many systems that only a select minority are able to tactfully navigate them. | near.blog
This week our friends at Springbank announced their debut fund with $35 million in capital commitments, and we are thrilled to partner with them. Courtney, Elana, and Jen were introduced to us by our partners at Union Square Ventures as they began putting together their new fund. We couldn’t be happier to share the news […]| Foundry
A couple of years ago, Latin America was the fastest-growing region in the world for startup investment. Hot companies from Brazil to Mexico were securing large, later-stage rounds to scale up in sectors like real estate, deliveries and e-commerce. Not anymore.| Crunchbase News
Initial Crunchbase data shows a slower final quarter ending a lackluster year for global startup funding as venture capital investors continued to hold back in 2023.| Crunchbase News
OpenAI co-founder and AI wunderkind Sam Altman is out as the company’s CEO, and Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, has been named as the generative AI giant's interim CEO.| Crunchbase News
