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
Flexport Raising $260M From Shopify — Report
Logistics giant Flexport is raising $260 million from partner and e-commerce titan Shopify after burning through hundreds of millions of dollars last year, per a report in The Info
AI Startup Cohere Reportedly Looking To Raise $500M To $1B
Nearly three weeks into the new year, and there have been no huge rounds for any AI startups. That may be about to change, as Reuters reported Toronto-based Cohere is in discussion
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Quantinuum Locks Up Huge $300M Round On Promise Of Quantum Computing
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Latin American Startup Funding Fell Again In 2023
A couple of years ago, Latin America was the fastest-growing region in the world for startup investment. Hot companies from Brazil to Mexico were securing large, later-stage rounds
