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Legora is buying Australian startup Graceview, a ‘regulatory horizon scanning platform’. It follows the deal to buy legal research company Qura just a week ago. …
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I got off a call recently with a very nice and talented founder running a company that had been around for about four years. Solid team, interesting technology, good investors, but still early revenue. Typical of many promising AI companies, two years ago it raised $10 million at a $40 million valuation, even though at
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Breaking News – RELX Group, the publicly listed company which owns LexisNexis Legal & Professional, has announced that it has entered into a ‘put option …
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Crunchbase just reported that $300 billion flowed into startups in Q1 2026, the biggest quarter in venture history. The eye-popping subtext? Four companies absorbed $188 billion of that, or 65%. If you’re a seed-stage founder reading those numbers, it’s easy to feel like the market is passing you by. Look closer, and the story changes
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Eli Lilly announced Monday that it is acquiring Kelonia Therapeutics, a developer of gene therapies with a particular focus on cancer treatment, in a deal valued at up to $7 billion in cash. Per Crunchbase data, the high end of the purchase price represents the largest acquisition of a venture-backed biotech company in years. It’s
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Eli Lilly announced Monday that it is acquiring Kelonia Therapeutics, a developer of gene therapies with a particular focus on cancer treatment, in a deal valued at up to $7 billion in cash. Per Crunchbase data, the high end of the purchase price represents the largest acquisition of a venture-backed biotech company in years. It’s
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Cybersecurity tends to be one of the more resilient sectors for startup funding, as customers know it’s cheaper in the long run to pay for it than go without. Even so, investment to the space reliably fluctuates from quarter to quarter, driven largely by the volume of jumbo rounds. This past quarter, funding to security-
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By Louis Blankemeier In October 2024, my co-founders and I set out to make our Ph.D. research useful in the real world. We had built AI models that could interpret medical images such as X-rays and CT scans across tens of thousands of potential diagnoses, generating comprehensive radiology reports that mirror how radiologists reason in
By Louis Blankemeier In October 2024, my co-founders and I set out to make our Ph.D. research useful in the real world. We had built AI models that could interpret medical images such as X-rays and CT scans across tens of thousands of potential diagnoses, generating comprehensive radiology reports that mirror how radiologists reason in
Update: The data and charts in this report were updated at 11:30 a.m. PT on April 1, 2026, to reflect the latest data in Crunchbase for Q1 2026. The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured
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