The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Skild AI Grabs $300M To Build Robot Brains
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals
Most Active Investor Rankings Got Reshuffled In Q2 As VCs Got Busier
The Crunchbase rankings of active startup investors looked quite different in the second quarter of 2024 compared to a year ago. First, nearly all of the most active venture invest
Defense Tech Startup Helsing Raises at $5.4B Valuation
Despite a slow start, there clearly is investor appetite in defense tech. Helsing, which develops artificial intelligence software for defense, raised approximately $489 million in
Eye On AI: Q2 Funding Shows Investors Are Willing To Open Their Checkbooks — For the Right Company
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. Last quarter was a great quarter if you were a founder of an AI-related startup looking for fundi
Asia Funding Limps Along, Hits Lowest Level Since 2015
Despite a slight resurgence across the global venture funding landscape, Asia seems to be left behind. The region suffered its worst quarter for venture funding since the final qua
Hayden AI Raises $90M To Make Sure You Don’t Park There
Next time you think about double parking, remember a San Francisco-based startup just raised a big Series C to help make sure you don’t. Hayden AI, a vision AI platform, locked i
North American Startup Funding Jumped Higher In Q2
North American startup funding perked up in the second quarter, bolstered by early-stage investment around artificial intelligence. Overall, investors put $45.3 billion into seed-
Global Funding And M&A Picked Up In Q2, While AI Funding Mushroomed
Global startup funding picked up in the second quarter, reaching $79 billion — rising 16% quarter over quarter and 12% from the $71 billion invested in Q2 2023. Mega-rounds — f
AI Startup Hebbia Locks Up $130M Series B Led By a16z
Hebbia, an AI startup that helps businesses analyze all types of data to answer more complex, multi-step questions, raised a $130 million Series B from a handful of big-name invest
Startups Merge In Spaces Where Funding Has Fallen
It’s common in venture capital to see startups with similar businesses close big rounds around the same time. This year, it’s generative AI. A couple years ago, there were many
