Editor’s note: This article is part of our 2026 forecast coverage. See our IPO market outlook here, and our startup M&A forecast here. Last year was a stellar one for venture funding, in large part thanks to AI. Preliminary Crunchbase data shows global venture investment in 2025 was on pace to be the third-highest on […]
Venture Capitalists Predict Many AI Startups Will Get Weeded Out in 2026 The Wall Street Journal
In startup circles, 2025 will be remembered as a busy year for big AI rounds. A total of 15 companies secured venture funding rounds of $2 billion or more last year, per Crunchbase data. Among them, they amassed more than $100 billion from those financings. The majority were generative AI companies, and they accrued most
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Editor’s note: This article is part of our 2026 forecast coverage. See our IPO market outlook here. For years, industry observers have predicted an uptick in startup M&A activity, in part due to the limited number of companies going public. As the IPO dam finally broke in 2025, we didn’t see a huge surge in
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 November entry here. This month, funded startups that caught our eye included a company aiming to make a better wireless monitor for heart disease, another using AI-designed antibodies for home
Editor’s note: In 2025, Crunchbase News heard from six active startup investors in artificial intelligence. Below, we publish highlights from those interviews or presentations. Read the full stories with Accel, Dell Technologies, Foundation Capital, GV, AI Fund and Sierra Ventures, as well as highlights from interviews in 2023 and 2024. AI investment accelerated in 2025,
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When interest rates were low, the amount of venture capital dollars flowing into the real estate technology space was high. The inverse of that is also proving to be true. As interest rates climbed in recent years, funding to the space plunged. But now in 2025, as rates have started to lower somewhat, venture dollars
In December 2021, I highlighted the dangers of tech startups raising capital at inflated revenue multiples between 40x and 70x. At the time, it was clear that valuations were being driven more by hype than by financial fundamentals. The warning signs were there. Now, years later, the consequences are materializing. Many of those companies raised
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