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Acquirers made just over $100B worth of disclosed-price startup purchases — Including deals that were announced but have not yet closed — in the first half of 2025, per Crunchbase data. That’s a whopping 155% increase from the same period last year. news.crunchbase.com/ma/ai-enterpri…
Sizable startup funding announcements continued to roll in this week, with the largest rounds coming in the form of growth equity investments to companies in the dispute and risk management spaces. We also saw good-sized financings tied to AI and biotech. news.crunchbase.com/venture/bigges…
Our July round-up of under-the-radar deals shows investors still backing ambitious bets. One startup raised $96M to map what’s underground and another picked up $45M to chase a universal flu vaccine. news.crunchbase.com/startups/inter…
The best CFOs are just like the founders they work for: business thinkers who understand how to turn capital into outcomes. In this guest commentary, strategic adviser @ItaySagie lays out some of the added knowledge beyond numbers the right hire can bring. news.crunchbase.com/startups/found…
In this guest commentary, Alberto Onetti of Mind the Bridge breaks down new data from the organization’s report on Spain and explores whether the country’s dual-hub model is a strategic strength or a growth-limiting Achilles’ heel. news.crunchbase.com/venture/spain-…
Venture investors are writing some big checks to protein-focused companies. Our sample list of 28 recently funded startups that provide alternative protein sources and protein-rich foods collectively raised more than $2B to date. news.crunchbase.com/venture/altern…
San Francisco-based Rocksalt, an AI platform that aims to help B2B companies establish credibility in relevant professional online communities, has raised $3.5M in seed funding led by @lightspeedvp. news.crunchbase.com/ai/rocksalt-se…
June saw a surge in unicorn creation, led by AI, robotics and financial services. The U.S. dominated while New Zealand made the board for the first time. Meanwhile, six unicorns went public — the most in nearly two years. news.crunchbase.com/venture/unicor…
Palo Alto, California-based crypto custody startup @BitGo filed confidentially to go public on Tuesday, the company said. news.crunchbase.com/public/ipo/cry…
Venture funding rose 11% year over year in Q2, with AI, cybersecurity and M&A driving the rebound. North America dominated, LaAm gained ground, Europe held steady, Asia lagged and IPO optimism crept back. We break that all down with 8 charts. news.crunchbase.com/venture/state-…
San Francisco-based talent recruitment platform Ashby announced a $50M Series D round, just over one year after raising its $30M Series C, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The company counts @Shopify, @Snowflake and @OpenAI among its customers. news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-pow…
So far this year, seed through growth-stage financing for travel-related companies is on track to continue its recovery, Crunchbase data shows. This week, the space got a boost when flight-booking platform @etraveli secured a large minority investment. news.crunchbase.com/travel-tourism…
Startups tackling the supply crunch for rare earth elements and critical battery materials are drawing serious VC interest. Crunchbase data shows that they’ve raised billions to date. news.crunchbase.com/venture/fundin…
In this guest essay, @tonkean CEO Sagi Eliyahu draws on @Gartner_inc latest prediction and a much-discussed CMU experiment to make the case for treating agents as tools to augment humans and explains why structure, not hype, will determine success. news.crunchbase.com/ai/implementin…
Cybersecurity was a hot area for venture investment in the first half of 2025, with total funding to the space hitting its highest level in three years. news.crunchbase.com/cybersecurity/…
Late-stage deals drove a quiet rebound in Latin America’s venture funding last quarter with Mexico leading the charge for the first time since 2012. news.crunchbase.com/venture/mexico…
Guest author Sacha Lazimi, co-founder and CEO of social platform @yubo_app, provides practical guidance to early-stage middle-market founders for getting an early start on their companies' required regulatory compliance. news.crunchbase.com/policy-regulat…
Total global funding to VC-backed financial technology startups totaled $22B in H1, per Crunchbase data. That’s an 11.1% increase from the second half of 2024, and up 5.3% compared to the $20.9B raised in the first half of last year. news.crunchbase.com/fintech/invest…
Overall, funding in Asia in the first half of 2025 was down roughly a third from the same period last year. Deal volume also declined, with reported deal counts at every stage lower in the first two quarters of 2025 than year-ago levels. news.crunchbase.com/venture/asia-s…
For what one might expect to be a sleepy week in mid-July, this turned out to be a fairly active period for venture dealmaking. Top fundraisers included a developer of AI-enabled factories for aerospace and defense, and a medical AI tool. news.crunchbase.com/venture/bigges…