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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Varied Week For Big Deals, Led By AI And Defense

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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal […]

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Austin’s Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City’s Startups Hits All-Time High

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At the height of the pandemic and the global shift to remote work, tech founders and investors alike flocked to Austin, Texas, drawn to a more business-friendly environment, relatively lower housing costs, and the city’s hip reputation. Venture firms that set up shop in the Texas capital city included Bedrock Capital, Breyer Capital, and 8VC

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PwC’s US IPO Lead On The 2026 Outlook, IPO Timing And The Secondary Boom

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The tech IPO market has barely cracked open in 2026. But behind the slow start is a potential pipeline of blockbuster listings — including possible debuts from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic — that could redefine the market when it does. To understand what’s holding the IPO market back and what could unlock it, Crunchbase News

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The Series B Pipeline Looks Refreshingly Diversified

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Before pulling data, one usually has a preconceived idea of what the results will show. In this case, looking at recent U.S. Series B investments, my assumption was that big rounds would be dominated by a few buzzy AI sectors. The reality, however, looks far more diversified. Startups securing the largest rounds run the gamut

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Plant-Based Clothing Dyes, A Shoebox-Picking Robot, And Power Generated On The Moon

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This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our December entry here. A host of interesting, under-the-radar recently funded startups caught our attention in the past month, including one that’s developing nuclear-waste generated electricity on the moon, another that

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January Delivers Highest New Unicorn Count In More Than 3 Years

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A total of 31 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in January, the largest count of companies to join in a single month since June 2022. Collectively, those companies added $9.3 billion in funding and $58.5 billion in value to the board. And underlining the pace at which some startups are now sprinting to billion-dollar-plus

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In The Era Of Unicorn Valuation Escalation, A Trillion Dollars Isn’t What It Used To Be

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About three years ago, a check for $1 trillion would theoretically 1 be enough to buy up all of the 100 most-valuable U.S. private, venture-backed startups. Today, it wouldn’t even be enough to buy one, if it was the newly combined SpaceX and xAI, now valuing itself at $1.25 trillion. It would also fall short

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5 Startup Sectors Seeing Big Funding Growth

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Last year, AI grabbed half of venture dollars globally. But the sector’s blockbuster growth hasn’t necessarily come at the expense of other startup industries. Rather, areas that benefit from AI-driven automation such as legal tech, or that combine AI software with physical tech, like robotics and defense tech, are seeing record-high funding levels as well,

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Waymo Leads An AI-Driven Lineup Of Large Financings

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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal

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Q&A: Why Deep Tech Investors Are Turning To The Secondary Market For Liquidity

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As a founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, Sriram Viswanathan knows a thing or two about deep tech. Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Celesta is focused exclusively on deep tech, built around the conviction that major technology shifts require innovation at the infrastructure layer. With assets under management of $1.1 billion, the operator-led venture firm

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