DFJ Growth Closes $1.2B Flagship Fund
Venture investor DFJ Growth announced Tuesday it has raised $1.2 billion for a fifth flagship fund, its largest to date. The fundraise comes amid a busy period for funding in areas
Florida Funding Falls
Despite what boosters may have envisioned amid a pandemic-era spike in migration to Florida a few years ago, the Sunshine State is not emerging as a startup hotbed. So far this yea
How Fintech Is Revolutionizing Access To Capital For Startups And Entrepreneurs
By Yaacov Martin With consumer prices having climbed 2.4% in the past year, the cost of running a business also is on the rise. This mounting financial load will likely lead to mor
The Immigrant Edge: How Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America’s Unicorn Boom
The next time someone talks about restricting immigration, show them this: Nearly half of America’s billion-dollar startups were founded by people born outside the United States.
The 30-Year Unicorn Backlog
If the current pace of exits persists, it would take 30 years for every U.S. company on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board to go public or be acquired. That was the finding from an analy
From Posts To Profits: Why Creators Are The New Entrepreneurs Investors Can’t Ignore
By Murad Salikhov Imagine that a 22-year-old blogger posts videos from his bedroom about financial literacy. A year later, he has a team of five people and has just closed his firs
The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Anysphere, Wonder Raise Massive Rounds
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals
Is Location Still Relevant for Success? How To Build A Business Outside Your Target Market
By Ariel Renous Until recently, when launching a company, the idea of “location, location, location” was just as important to founders as the product itself. But today, locatio
Looking Back 10 Years, Seed Investors Envisioned A Different Future Unfolding
Reviewing old seed funding data is a lot like going into the past to see what people thought the future would look like. In this case, we’re not going back to the distant past. I
Coinbase Buys Deribit In Biggest Crypto Deal To Date
Crypto dealmaking is hot. Coinbase announced Thursday the biggest deal in the crypto industry to date when it said it would buy derivatives exchange Deribit in a $2.9 billion deal
