The most active, highest-spending startup investors are leading a lot of large new rounds lately. When it comes to exits, however, things look much, much slower. We used Crunchbase data to examine IPO and M&A exits since 2023 for six firms that...
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After a couple of blistering weeks, large funding rounds slowed down to a crawl, with only two rounds hitting nine figures. Not surprisingly, those...
It is crucial that as a founder you do your homework and lay down proper foundations for scaling if you want your business to find success, writes...
In this guest column, Jason Levin, the founder of Memelord Technologies, lays out a step-by-step guide for taking advantage of X Verified...
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Marketing and personalization startup Hightouch locked up an $80 million Series C led by Sapphire Ventures, minting it as a new unicorn at a $1.2...
Of the 11 new unicorns in January, five came from healthcare, including companies working on genetic research, drug development, scanning services...
StackAdapt raised a $235 million growth round led by Teachers’ Venture Growth — the late-stage venture and growth investment arm of Ontario Teachers’...
After a frenetic first couple of weeks as far as big rounds go, this week was quieter than a library. Only one round of more than $100 million was...
As AI becomes more embedded in business operations, it is poised to fundamentally reshape company structures, especially in how products and services...
Last month, xAI and Anthropic raised a combined $9 billion as AI funding remained red-hot. Other sectors, including IT management and robotics, also...
Today’s startups face a new game, as investors are no longer swayed by vanity metrics, argues entrepreneur and guest author Yakov Filippenko, who...
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