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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 […]
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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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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Few venture capitalists have the name recognition — or tenure — of Tim Draper. A fixture in Silicon Valley for decades, Draper has built a reputation for bold, often contrarian bets that have yielded some of the industry’s most notable wins, including early investments in SpaceX, Tesla, Coinbase, Skype and Twitch. His career, which spans
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Science Corp., a biotech startup focused on brain-computer interface technologies, announced Thursday that it has closed on a $230 million Series C fundraise. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, IQT and Quiet Capital were among the investors participating in the syndicated round. With the latest financing, Science Corp. says it has now raised $489
There are plenty of things to worry about these days, and the ability of AI to weaponize biology into one of the largest threats facing our world isn’t top of mind for most of us. Seed-stage investors have a different view. Over the past few months, two startups focused on the intersection of AI and
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Eight Sleep, a startup developing sleep technology products, announced Wednesday that it has raised $50 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. Tether Investments led the “strategic” investment in the New York-based startup, which has now raised more than $250 million in total funding. Eight Sleep raised $100 million last August, so this financing marks its
Eight Sleep Raises $50M At $1.5B Valuation To Expand Into ‘Predictive, AI-Driven Health’ Read More »
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
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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Big-name investors. Big checks. Big deal flow. That, in the most basic prose, was the general atmosphere for U.S. startup funding in January. Well-known firms topped the ranks of active investors, including a few that were best known as prolific dealmakers during the last market boom. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz ranked
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