Hoping to be the first company to commercialize fusion power, Commonwealth Fusion Systems led the pack by a long shot for funding this week, pulling in $863 million for its latest round.| Crunchbase News
AI can easily handle many junior-level tasks, but replacing young talent with AI is a strategic risk, writes guest author and startup adviser Itay Sagie who shares just a few of the many benefits junior talent provides; their proficiency in AI among them.| Crunchbase News
For a topic that people mostly avoid bringing up in casual conversation, incontinence represents a huge addressable market. And startup founders and investors have taken note.| Crunchbase News
Website design platform Framer gained unicorn status with its Meritech Capital Partners- and Atomico-led $100 million Series D that values it at $2 billion.| Crunchbase News
FriendliAI, an AI inference platform startup that provides “last mile” artificial intelligence engagement, has raised $20 million in a seed extension round, the company told Crunchbase News in this exclusive.| Crunchbase News
Gusto, an HR tech company valued at nearly $10 billion, has agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup that provides retirement plans to small and medium-sized businesses, CNBC reported on Wednesday.| Crunchbase News
AI was yet again an inescapable theme this month as we looked for interesting startups that landed fresh investment. From a company using AI to help Alzheimer’s patients and their families better manage care, to another promising to streamline clothing production in the U.S. through advanced robotics, startups scooped up cash around a variety of AI-related businesses in August.| Crunchbase News
Digital marketing, long reliant on traditional SEO to capture readers' attention, must appeal to yet another audience; AI agents, writes Tara Corey, SVP of marketing at Optimizely. In this guest commentary she shares the growing influence of AI agents on a company's metrics and encourages marketers to shift their strategy to address both audiences.| Crunchbase News
After hitting the brakes on its IPO in April, Swedish fintech giant Klarna is reportedly resuming its plans to go public in the United States in September, eyeing a valuation of between $13 billion and $14 billion.| Crunchbase News
Overall battery-related venture investment is holding strong. Crunchbase data finds that for 2023, global funding is on track to exceed both 2022 and 2021 levels. We look at which startups are bucking the funding trend.| Crunchbase News
The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act prompted a major overhaul of the Internal Revenue Code's QSBS rules, write guest authors Ling Kong and Michael Shaff of the Michelman & Robinson law firm. In this commentary, the authors break down what’s changed and why it matters.| Crunchbase News
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
As “Web3” and the “decentralized web” have grown as buzzwords in the startup industry, so has investor interest in what some think will be the next iteration of the internet.| 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
This isn’t just the friendly “technology makes everything faster, cheaper, and more efficient” kind of story, writes guest author Aron Solomon. Rather, he warns, this is where technology steps in not because it’s better than humans, but because the humans simply aren’t there anymore.| Crunchbase News
This isn’t just the friendly “technology makes everything faster, cheaper, and more efficient” kind of story, writes guest author Aron Solomon. Rather, he warns, this is where technology steps in not because it’s better than humans, but because the humans simply aren’t there anymore.| Crunchbase News
Cache, a San Francisco-based startup that helps tech employees diversify large company stock holdings without triggering capital gains taxes, has raised $12.5 million at a $125 million valuation.| Crunchbase News
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
For entrepreneurs, investors, and Crunchbase customers, we narrate how private capital in upstarts today displace the most powerful corporations tomorrow.| Crunchbase News
Somewhere during the most recent period of easy money and endless growth, investors stopped thinking seriously about valuation. In this guest column, Equidam's Dan Gray reminds us of what startup valuation is and isn't.| Crunchbase News
Getting a startup funded involves many steps, writes Dan Gray, head of insights at Equidam, who compares the process of getting the right price to a high-level auction.| Crunchbase News
Global venture funding in 2024 edged above 2023’s totals, with AI showing the biggest leap in amounts year to year. Overall startup funding in 2024 reached close to $314 billion — compared to $304 billion in 2023 — up around 3%, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data.| Crunchbase News
Venture funding to legal tech startups is pacing this year to hit about $725 million, per Crunchbase data. That’s a steep decline from the past two years, when funding to such startups was around $2 billion each year.| Crunchbase News
The intersection of AI and coding is one of the hottest areas for venture funding of late. But even in a heated investment environment, this week was exceptional.| Crunchbase News
The week saw a handful of nine-figure rounds, and some at pretty big valuations. That included one large round minting a new unicorn that has developed an AI-powered coding co-pilot.| Crunchbase News
OpenAI’s reported $100 billion valuation is a staggering number, even by venture-backed unicorn standards. We put together a few comparable stats to put it in context.| Crunchbase News
AI investment towers over other sectors when it comes to venture funding, and Menlo Ventures, one of the oldest firms in Silicon Valley, led that charge, but it's looking for more.| Crunchbase News
San Francisco-based Cribl raised a $319 million Series E led by new investor GV and valuing the data infrastructure company at $3.5 billion.| Crunchbase News
Tally, a San Francisco-based startup that helped people manage and pay off their credit card debt, has closed its doors.| Crunchbase News
New unicorn counts jumped in July, as 13 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board, with the healthcare/biotech sector taking the lead with three companies. Other industries each counted a single newly minted unicorn in July.| Crunchbase News
Generative AI and AI-related startups raised more than $42 billion in 2023, per Crunchbase data, with some, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Inflection AI, raking in billions of dollars all by themselves.| Crunchbase News
So far this year, out of the handful of tech titans putting big money in the AI space, Microsoft and Nvidia — along with their respective venture arms — are among the leaders when it comes to investing in VC-backed, AI-related startups.| 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
What Are The Odds Of Success For A US Seed Funded Startup? - Read Crunchbase's exclusive analysis of startups from 2011-2018.| 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
Another busy day in AI: San Francisco's Scale AI raised $1 billion in an Accel-led round that takes its valuation to $13.8 billion, and Paris-based startup H, previously referred to as Holistic AI, launched with a $220 million round.| Crunchbase News
While VC funding in the U.S. dropped nearly a third in 2022, Black-founded startups were hit disproportionately by the decline.| Crunchbase News
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
As venture funding contracts, the odds of seed-funded startups graduating to a Series A round have gotten even slimmer.| Crunchbase News
Lately, U.S. investors have gotten much stingier when it comes to funding middle-aged startups. A metric to measure this is Series C funding.| 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
Although we’ve seen some slowdown in mass job cuts from large-cap technology companies in recent months, layoff disclosures from startups and small to mid-sized companies continue to roll in at a steady pace.| 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
Investment into seed startups globally grew in Q2 2022, even as venture investment dropped off dramatically. That’s no longer the case.| Crunchbase News
The Crunchbase Unicorn Board is a curated list of global unicorn companies powered by Crunchbase’s comprehensive private company data.| Crunchbase News
The share of investment going to AI has more than doubled from year-ago levels.| Crunchbase News
Tech layoffs: At least 95,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2024 and the cuts have continued into 2025.| Crunchbase News
