How Former Googlers’ VC Firm Invests In Everything From LLMs To AI Doing Drug Discovery
Editor’s note: This is part of a series in which we interview active investors in artificial intelligence. Previous interviews were with investors at General Catalyst, Bessemer V
Google To Invest $2B In Anthropic As AI Funding Wars Heat Up
It will be hard for any startup to catch OpenAI when it comes to funding dollars, but it seems Anthropic is willing to give it a go. Previous investor Google has agreed to invest u
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Aiolos Bio, Island And Pony.ai Nab Large Raises
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals
VCs Have A Bad Relationship With Trucks
Among country singers, crooning about trucks has long been a reliable path to getting a hit. The list of famed songs praising old pickups is probably rivaled in length only by odes
Meet The New AI Unicorns Of 2023
One in five of the new billion-dollar startups to join The Crunchbase Unicorn Board this year were artificial intelligence companies, an analysis of the board shows. The 15 AI comp
Andreessen Horowitz May Be Optimistic About Tech, But It’s Still Slowing Its Deal Pace
Andreessen Horowitz is known for its bets on then-startups such as Facebook, Instagram and Airbnb. Firm founder Marc Andreessen is also known for his opinion pieces, from “Softwa
Investors Have Stopped Feeding The Supply Chain
For a number of years, one of startup investors’ favorite activities involved writing checks to companies in the supply chain management sector. From 2018 till the end of 2022, i
Aiolos Bio Launches With $245M As Asthma-Focused Funding Accelerates
Venture investors have long been keen backers of startups working on treatments for asthma and other respiratory ailments. Lately, it looks like activity is scaling up further. On
Cybersecurity Starts Off Week With Big Rounds
While venture funding to cybersecurity startups is down 30% year to year, this week has already seen a handful of good-sized rounds going to U.S.-based security firms. Just in the
From Buildings To Ocean Water, Startups Are Finding More Places To Stow Carbon
There is too much carbon in the atmosphere, and we have to find somewhere else to put it. Preferably, somewhere stable and contained. Maybe deep underground. Potentially in some co
