Although it was a slow(er) week, we saw a $1 billion round go to yet another AI startup, and biotech and blockchain also saw some big deals.
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This year is shaping up as the first we’ve seen in which biotech and healthcare startups receive a majority of U.S. Series A commitments.
Through the middle of May, funding is less than half of what it was at the same point last year, per СÀ¶ÊÓÆµÉ«ÇéÍøÒ³°æ data, despite the war in Ukraine...
Paddle's Q1 2024 statistics show evidence of a SaaS market reconciliation. Guest author Jimmy Fitzgerald, CEO of Paddle, provides some strategies for...
Translation and language startup DeepL became the latest startup using generative AI to raise big, nabbing $300 million at a $2 billion post-money...
So far this year, less than $100 million has gone into U.S. companies in СÀ¶ÊÓÆµÉ«ÇéÍøÒ³°æâ€™s smart-home and smart-building categories.
Rounds of $100 million or more — or megadeals — have exploded this year, as U.S.-based startups have collected 115 such rounds through mid-May, per...
CyberArk Software has agreed to buy machine identity company Venafi for $1.5 billion, in the largest this year for a private cybersecurity company...
If the current sluggish pace of IPOs and acquisitions continues, it would take decades for every U.S. unicorn to generate an exit.
CoreWeave’s big May continued, as the AI cloud infrastructure startup raised a $7.5 billion debt facility in the same month it raised a $1.1 billion...
Two rounds hit a quarter-of-a-billion dollars or more and there were eight rounds of $100 million or more.


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