The Great Venture Talent Flux
By Rohit Yadav When is the right moment to shift your company, your role, or even your entire industry? Ask a dozen people, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. But in ven
Crypto And Blockchain Funding Sees Big Boost In Q1 Thanks To Binance
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
Tariff-Induced Market Meltdown Worrisome For Startup Valuations And Exits
Unlike public companies, private startup valuations don’t fluctuate massively from day to day based on current events. Eventually, however, private company prices do adjust to re
AI Image Startup Runway Raises At $3B
New York-based Runway raised $308 million in a new round at about double its valuation from less than two years ago. The new round — led by General Atlantic — values the AI vid
What Is DevSecOps And Why Does It Matter In The Age Of AI?
By Sanket Saurav Interest in DevSecOps has surged in recent years — but many people probably don’t know what it is, or why it has become especially important for tech companies
Q1 Global Startup Funding Posts Strongest Quarter Since Q2 2022 With A Third Going To Massive OpenAI Deal
Both the largest startup funding round ever and the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company occurred in Q1 2025, reflecting a warming startup environment but also one where
Eye On AI: Massive OpenAI Deal Masks AI’s Slow Quarter
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. The big news in the world of venture and artificial intelligence obviously has been OpenAI‘s ma
As US Defense Tech Surges, Europe Lags
Last week, news broke that Anduril Industries — perhaps the poster child for defense tech startups — is considering plans to open a factory in the U.K. The startup, valued now
Stealing Ghibli: How AI Has Crossed The Line Into Creative Theft
This, from her Instagram on Saturday, is Jaqueline Cristian, the top-ranked Romanian women’s professional tennis player and the 61st ranked woman player in the world. This, a fan
Founders, Here’s How Not To Be Thrown Overboard After A Big Fundraise
By Dan Lifshits Raising capital is an inevitable step for almost any startup founder — unless you’re building a business that is profitable from day one. However, a big raise c
