After another slow year in 2024 for new tech listings, there is an expectation that the IPO markets will pick up in 2025. A year ago, the outlook was not bullish. We take a look at what's changed.| Crunchbase News
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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
When it seemed the SaaS platform for sales engineers that Vivun had been building and selling was going to be made obsolete by AI, the team pivoted to rebuild their product for the future. In this guest commentary, co-founder and CEO Matt Darrow lays out the path the startup took to remain relevant in the age of AI while retaining many of its customers.| Crunchbase News
Funding to wearables is looking comparatively perky this year, Crunchbase data shows. While largely due to Oura, maker of a smart ring that tracks health and wellness metrics, our data found several other wearables-related companies pulling in significant venture investment recently.| Crunchbase News
This week offered a change of pace on the giant round front as it was a biotech company, rather than an AI startup, at the top of the ranks. Other sizable financings went to companies offering fractional aircraft ownership, fintech services and hair loss treatments.| Crunchbase News
Don't let the unspoken rules of Silicon Valley deter you from reaching your startup goals as an immigrant founder, writes guest author Vasyl Dub, who shares a few simple steps that are critical for founders navigating today's funding frenzy.| Crunchbase News
In total, investors put just over $3.3 billion globally into seed- through growth-stage rounds for cybersecurity-focused companies, per Crunchbase data. That’s about a third lower than the prior quarter.| Crunchbase News
HR and payroll platform Deel has raised $300 million in fresh funding at a $17.3 billion valuation. The deal was led by new investor Ribbit Capital and previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue Management.| Crunchbase News
Where are seed- and early-stage AI investors placing their bets? To answer this question, we analyzed a dataset of AI-focused startups that raised at least a few million dollars in seed- or early-stage funding this year.| Crunchbase News
Addressing the question: Are we in a bubble? guest author Dan Gray, head of insights at Equidam, explains how bubbles emerge and how AI investment differs in two major ways from the historical patterns of previous bubbles.| Crunchbase News
Campfire, a San Francisco-based AI-powered accounting startup, has raised $65 million in a Series B round just months after closing on its Series A.| Crunchbase News
A total of 26 companies joined the The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in September, the largest new monthly cohort in three years, Crunchbase data shows. The surge in new unicorns follows on the heels of a very slow August, when only four companies joined the board.| Crunchbase News
Per Crunchbase data, the past couple of years have seen a sizable cohort of companies that have gone all the way from Series A to Series C between 2023 and this year, with several managing to scale all three stages in less than 12 months.| Crunchbase News
AI startups and California-based companies have been scooping up an outsized share of venture funding for a while now, and this past week was no exception.| Crunchbase News
The old SaaS playbook of build a great app, charge monthly and let infrastructure fade into the background, doesn’t hold up when your core cost scales with usage, writes guest author Itay Sagie, who shares three moves AI founders can make to stay in the game.| Crunchbase News
It’s been more than a year since the IPO pipeline’s shutoff valve was turned on, and so far the market has shown few drops of a comeback.| Crunchbase News
So far this year, only around $2.3 billion globally has gone to seed through growth-stage investments in in sustainability-related categories — down more than two-thirds from the same period last year.| 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
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
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
What Are The Odds Of Success For A US Seed Funded Startup? - Read Crunchbase's exclusive analysis of startups from 2011-2018.| 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
