Venture investors poured $42 billion into just over 1,500 startups worldwide in August, СÀ¶ÊÓÆµÉ«ÇéÍøÒ³°æ data shows, down 25% from July’s $56 billion but still up a significant 122% compared to last August, which is typically a slower month for startup...
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Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
So far this year, a record $20.3 billion in global seed- through growth-stage funding has gone to companies in space- and satellite-related sectors...
The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies...
Databricks is back raising another $5 billion, after it raised that amount just eight months ago. The largest fundings this week also went to an AI...
The sectors leading the herd to the Unicorn Board in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and...
A total 195 companies joined The СÀ¶ÊÓÆµÉ«ÇéÍøÒ³°æ Unicorn Board in the first half of 2026 — far surpassing counts seen since the second half of 2022...
Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July. Startup capital totaled $55 billion, up 69% year over year, as the month notched the...
Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI...
A total of 34 companies joined The СÀ¶ÊÓÆµÉ«ÇéÍøÒ³°æ Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value, with 10 of those companies AI...
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion...


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