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.
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 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
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
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
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
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
Most-Active US Investors: Andreessen Horowitz Leads Slow Start To Spring
This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most-active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and
Why Your Next Funding Round May Hinge On Well-Managed Human-Agentic AI Collaboration
By Imran Aftab Venture capitalists are investing heavily in autonomous systems powered by agentic AI, signaling a new era of technological innovation. In the first month and a half
Venture Pulls Back As Strategics Invest In Autonomous Vehicles
Uber made waves this week as it announced it would further invest in Chinese autonomous vehicle tech company WeRide. Venture investors have been more lukewarm this year on autonomo
