Last year was the third-strongest on record for global venture funding with a surprisingly strong year for IPOs and an uptick in startup M&A numbers, and industry insiders we spoke with expect 2026 ...

In recent quarters, California’s dominance in startup funding has grown even more pronounced, pulling in 63% of all U.S.

A dynamic we’re seeing more of at seed and Series A is the number of unusually large rounds that has been creeping up in ...

Northwood Space, which builds infrastructure that lets satellites communicate with Earth, announced Tuesday that it has ...

Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab, announced on Monday that it has raised $300 million in a Series A round of funding ...

Banking giant Capital One announced on Thursday that it is acquiring fintech startup Brex for $5.15 billion in a cash and ...

Zocks, a builder of an AI assistant for financial advisers, has raised $45 million in a Series B funding co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, the startup told Crunchbase News ...

The momentum of new unicorn creation picked up in the final four months of 2025, with the fourth quarter showing the highest count of newly minted billion–dollar-plus valued companies since Q2 2022.

AI is not a standalone sector. It is an infrastructure layer, just like the internet once was, and it's being embedded across ...

Venture investors' thirst for AI isn’t close to quenched yet. That’s the takeaway from this week’s lineup of large U.S. funding rounds, which was mostly a mix of AI pure-plays and companies with a ...