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
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
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
The transaction and resulting valuation grant OpenAI the distinction of now being the world’s most valuable private, venture-backed company, surpassing SpaceX.| 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
Shares of Neptune Insurance Holdings were up in early first-day trading Wednesday, as the market tides delivered a moderate rise for the flood insurance policy provider.| Crunchbase News
Prolific hacking group Scattered Spider is able to successfully use compromised employee credentials in their attacks. Jason Martin, co-founder and co-CEO of Permiso Security, shares how businesses can work to protect themselves.| 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 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
Today, the Big Five — Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon — have a combined market capitalization of more than $16 trillion. They’ve also got close to $400 billion in cash on the books between them. Even with that massive spending power, however, the largest tech companies have not bought many startups this year. We take a look.| 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
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