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A boom in late-stage and growth funding helped buoy venture funding in Latin America for the first quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows. Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the three-month period ending March 31. That was up 12% year over year and down 6% from […]
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The investors backing the highest number of startup rounds this past quarter were mostly not the ones writing the biggest checks. And the ones funding the largest deals were not the most prolific dealmakers. That, in broad strokes, was the state of startup funding in Q1 of this year, a period characterized by record-setting rounds
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The investors backing the highest number of startup rounds this past quarter were mostly not the ones writing the biggest checks. And the ones funding the largest deals were not the most prolific dealmakers. That, in broad strokes, was the state of startup funding in Q1 of this year, a period characterized by record-setting rounds
Most Active And Highest-Spending Startup Investors Diverged In Q1 Read More »
The investors backing the highest number of startup rounds this past quarter were mostly not the ones writing the biggest checks. And the ones funding the largest deals were not the most prolific dealmakers. That, in broad strokes, was the state of startup funding in Q1 of this year, a period characterized by record-setting rounds
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This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals that may have flown under the radar. Check out our previous entry here. In a quarter when nearly two-thirds of global venture capital went to just four companies, it’s easy to lose track of the many other companies getting funding to tackle
The first quarter was one for the North American venture capital record books. U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds per Crunchbase data. That’s more than 3x the total raised in the prior quarter, and the largest quarterly total of all time. Predictably, artificial intelligence was the
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Miravoice, a startup using AI voice agents to conduct long-form phone surveys, has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Unusual Ventures led the financing, which included participation from Neo, 25madison and angel investors from companies such as Ramp, PubMatic, Atlassian and Google. Miravoice has developed an AI
The stereotypical seed-funded company may be a scrappy startup with a shoestring budget. But in the age of AI, that’s not where investors are concentrating their bets. Instead, recent months have served as a busy period for big commitments to seed-stage companies that are short on operating history and long on ambition. To illustrate, we
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Venture capital news headlines these days are dominated by stories of size: capital concentration into the highest-growth companies, surging valuations, seed rounds totaling tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and megafunds raising tens of billions in new capital. Smaller funds and more modest seed rounds are seemingly out of favor. Seed trends bifurcate
Storied venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins announced Tuesday that it has raised $3.5 billion across new funds with a primary focus on artificial intelligence. The fundraise includes $1 billion for KP22, a fund to back early-stage companies, and $2.5 billion targeted for growth-stage investments. It’s a considerable increase in capital commitments compared to the last
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