North American Startup Funding Ended 2023 With A Q4 Dip
A down year has ended on a down note. North American startup investors closed out 2023 with the worst quarter of the year, pulling back sharply on late-stage deals amid a weak exit
Forecast: After A Turbulent Few Years, Venture Should Steady In 2024
For the past handful of years, the venture market has been on a wild ride. From the cheap money days of 2020 and 2021 to the market recalibration in 2022 to some rocky times in 202
Investors Press Pause On Gaming Startups
When it comes to raising money, gaming startups aren’t seeing a lot of play. Per Crunchbase data, seed- through growth-stage investment in companies tied to the gaming industry h
Global Startup Funding In 2023 Clocks In At Lowest Level In 5 Years
A slower final quarter ended a lackluster year for global startup funding as venture capital investors continued to hold back in 2023, Crunchbase data shows. In all, 2023 is on pac
Forecast: 15 Companies We Think May Actually, Really, Finally, Maybe Go Public In 2024
Will 2024 be the year IPOs finally come roaring back, after a more than two-year lull? That seems unlikely, but then again, all venture-backed startups have to exit sometime, so at
Forecast: As IPO Market Ends 2023 With A Whimper Not A Bang, What Does 2024 Hold?
The September public debuts of Arm, Klaviyo and Instacart signaled the public markets could be opening up again. After all, these were the largest tech IPOs in more than 18 months.
Forecast: 5 Top Trends In Tech And Startups We’re Watching In 2024, From AI To IPOs
Between the rapid ascendance of AI and the often dramatic downfall of startups large and small, 2023 was an action-packed year for tech and venture. In many ways, we expect 2024 to
The Year’s 10 Biggest VC Funding Rounds: OpenAI, Stripe And Anthropic Top The List For Biggest Raises In 2023
This is a year-end wrap up of our weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last year’s here. You can track funding deals of $100 mil
From SVB And SBF To AI And IPOs, There Was A Lot Of Action (And Acronyms) In 2023
After a rough 2022, many people in venture were hoping 2023 would offer a reprieve. While the year did see some steadying in the venture-backed startup world, it did not lack for b
Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023
Funding to the unicorn class of companies — those private startups valued at $1 billion or more — has fallen dramatically in 2023, to around 25% of what it was in the 2021 mark
