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U.S. seed investment is surging, but with more money going into fewer deals, it’s not altogether surprising that the funding uptick isn’t lifting all startup hubs equally. Crunchbase data shows that while seed capital is still flowing nationwide, it’s concentrating in a familiar place: the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2025, the Bay Area expanded
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In every startup cycle, a few fortunate founders find themselves inundated with term sheets at rapidly growing valuations. This phenomenon has been on the rise over the past couple years, driven by voracious investor appetite for AI early movers. Since 2024, an estimated 207 AI-focused companies have joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board. That’s roughly half
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The market for funding U.S. startups at the seed stage is growing, but there’s a catch. While more funding is going into startups at this stage, seed funding saw a marked shift in 2025: More than half of seed dollars last year went into deals of $10 million or above. At the same time, deal
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A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups, including three from China. Frontier labs added four new unicorns, including two that are building models for robotics.
European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth. As was the case globally and in North America, the main driver was AI, which for the first time claimed more than 50% of Europe’s total funding for
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European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth. As was the case globally and in North America, the main driver was AI, which for the first time claimed more than 50% of Europe’s total funding for
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Asia’s startup funding swung higher in the first quarter of this year, boosted by a rebound in Chinese venture investment. Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels. Total funding
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Asia’s startup funding swung higher in the first quarter of this year, boosted by a rebound in Chinese venture investment. Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels. Total funding
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In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a tax return on the screen, the accountant realized: “My business is either dead in 18
