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Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep

The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle to match neurological activity with brain function and detect problems early, slowing efforts to treat neurological disorders and other diseases.Beacon Biosignals is working to make sense of the brain by monitoring its activity while people sleep. The company,

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Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round

Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform that aims to help people build data-driven companies without hiring a data team, has raised $3.7 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Austin-based Dreambase has developed AI-native data agents to do the analytical work that data teams have historically done, according to CEO and co-founder Andy Keil. Andy

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Seed Funding Is Bigger Than Ever — And Harder To Get

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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NEA’s Tiffany Luck On How Startup Founders Can Build Moats In Vertical AI

As a partner at New Enterprise Associates, Tiffany Luck invests in the AI application layer and B2B SaaS. She began on the consumer side at early-stage companies including Lot18 and pioneered the early push of CPG e-commerce at Amazon long before the Whole Foods acquisition. After a pivot into tech M&A at Morgan Stanley and

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Autonomy And Biotech Top The Ranks

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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