Startups

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Space Tech, AI Infrastructure Lead Fundraises

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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AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on résumé

Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a large quantity of proprietary information in the days leading up to his ouster from the company in September 2024. In a lawsuit filed late last month in San Francisco

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Tim Draper On The AI Boom, Bitcoin’s Future And Building ‘Human Accelerators’

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., Another Braintech Startup Founded By Neuralink Alums, Raises $230M Series C

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

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Exclusive: Founded By 2 Brothers In Their 20s, YC-Backed Denki Raises $4.1M To Automate Financial Audits

Denki, which has built AI-powered software for financial auditors at public companies, has raised $4.1 million in funding, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Founded in 2025 by brothers Felipe Jin Li (24) and David Jin Li (20), San Francisco-based Denki aims to build “modern” infrastructure for financial audits, which verify that financial statements are

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Active Investors Spent More On Fewer Deals In February

More money, fewer deals. That’s the broad direction for active startup investors of late. They’re increasingly concentrating capaital among generative AI heavy hitters and prominent unicorns, and making fewer small bets on unproven founders. February was perhaps the culmination of this trend. The month closed with the largest startup investment of all time — OpenAI’s

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Intersection Of Biosecurity And AI Sees Seed-Stage Spike

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 Raises $50M At $1.5B Valuation To Expand Into ‘Predictive, AI-Driven Health’

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

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