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What The Record Venture Funding Quarter Actually Means For Your Startup’s Fundraise

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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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Lilly Acquiring Kelonia In Largest Funded Biotech Startup Purchase In Years 

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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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Lilly Acquiring Kelonia In Largest Funded Biotech Startup Purchase In Years 

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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 Funding Holds Up At Robust Levels

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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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I Sold My Startup A Year After Founding It. Here’s Why That Was The Fastest Way To Build Real-World Healthcare AI

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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

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I Sold My Startup A Year After Founding It. Here’s Why That Was The Fastest Way To Build Real-World Healthcare AI

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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

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Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To $300B 

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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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Data: OpenAI Has Already Done Nearly As Many M&A Deals In 2026 As It Did All of Last Year

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As competition in the increasingly crowded generative AI space has intensified, it appears that OpenAI has turned to M&A to boost its offerings and stay ahead of its rivals. OpenAI has already made six acquisitions in 2026, nearly as many as it made in all of 2025, according to Crunchbase data. Its latest purchase took

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The Most Active Startup Acquirers Of The Past 3 Years Aren’t Always Who You’d Expect

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Companies that buy a lot of startups don’t always have a lot in common. Some are longstanding blue chip tech and pharmaceutical companies. Others are fast-growing venture-backed unicorns. And still others are more recent public market entrants looking to stay competitive in the age of AI. To get a sense of who’s buying in bulk,

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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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