Menlo Ventures Looks To Add To Growing AI Portfolio With New Anthropic Partnership
AI investment has towered over other sectors when it comes to venture investment, and one of the oldest firms in Silicon Valley has led that charge. Now Menlo Ventures is looking f
Parry Labs Raises $80M As Defense Tech Remains On A Tear
Defense tech startup Parry Labs completed an $80 million raise — the company’s first institutional investment round and just the latest in a string of big rounds to defense tec
To Make It Big, Most Tech Startups Have A Limited Post-IPO Window To Turn Profitable
Covering tech startup IPOs generally involves writing about companies that lose money. Sure, there are exceptions. Blockbusters, like Google, which was minting search advertising c
Data Infrastructure Startup Cribl Locks Up $319M At $3.5B Valuation
San Francisco-based Cribl raised a $319 million Series E led by new investor GV and valuing the data infrastructure company at $3.5 billion. The new round is actually a mix of $200
Venture Funding To China-Based Startups Dries Up
Venture funding to Chinese startups seems almost certain to hit its lowest point in a decade as early-stage funding to the country continues to plummet. Total funding to startups i
Corporate Funding Rounds Account For Larger Share Of Venture Investment
In the past couple years, a larger share of U.S. startup investment has come from corporate funding rounds. That was the broad finding from a Crunchbase data dive into U.S. rounds
After Slowing In 2023, US Median Round Size Again Growing
For a decade, U.S. seed and early-stage round sizes consistently saw an increase until early 2023 when typical round sizes began to come down and the venture market was three qua
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Grafana Labs Raises $270M To Lead Slow Week
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
Investors Still Pouring Cash Into Clean Concrete
Startup investors keep pouring capital into clean concrete. Over the past few years, companies in the space have raised more than $750 million in venture funding. And investment co
Eye On AI: AMD’s Big Deal Is Just Their Latest In AI
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. While we often focus on the machinations of the likes of Microsoft, Google and Nvidia in the ever
