2024: A Year Of Reckoning And Resilience For Startups And VCs
By Umesh Padval As we bid goodbye to a tumultuous 2023, marked by macroeconomic uncertainties and geopolitical tensions, the private markets stand at a crossroads in 2024. Despite
Lower Valuations, Higher Bar: What It’s Like To Raise A Seed Round In 2024
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the state of seed startup investing at the start of 2024. Read Part 1, which looked at seed funding trends over the past
Eye On AI: Valuations Are Not Slowing Down
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. While there have been some predictions of a slowdown in venture dollars as it concerns generative
Loyalty Startup Bilt Rewards Hits $3.1B Valuation After $200M Round
Bilt Rewards, a loyalty rewards startup, raised a $200 million round led by General Catalyst at a $3.1 billion valuation — more than double the number after its last fundraising
Travel Startup Funding Peaked Pre-COVID. Now TravelPerk And Others Are Scaling Up
Among startup categories, travel has followed one of the more unusual investment trajectories. Funding to the space hit a peak in 2019, amid buzz around a likely Airbnb IPO. At the
US Seed Investment Actually Held Up Pretty Well For The Past 2 Years. Here’s What That Means For 2024
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on the state of seed startup investing at the start of 2024. Check back tomorrow for Part 2. Despite a broad pullback in glo
Cyber Startup Silverfort Raises Fresh $116M To Protect Identity
Last year did not end on high notes for funding to cybersecurity or Israel-based startups. Silverfort has bucked both of those trends with its $116 million Series D led by Brighton
Many Boom Time Startup Acquisitions Have Worked Out Badly
Buying a startup can work out very well. Just ask Meta about its Instagram purchase in 2012 or let Google tell you about its $50 million acquisition in 2005 of a little company cal
ElevenLabs Latest AI Unicorn After $80M Raise
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raised an $80 million Series B at a unicorn valuation as investor interest in all AI tech remains at an all-time high. The Brooklyn-based company did no
Web3 Funding Cratered In 2023
Editor’s note: For more Web3 coverage, visit Crunchbase’s Web3 Tracker, where we track startups, investors and funding news in the Web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain space, po
