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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Transportation And Biotech Take The Lead

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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No-Code to Custom AI Apps: What US Startups Are Actually Building in 2026

Introduction You’ve probably already built something with tools like v0 by Vercel or Bolt.new—a landing page, a dashboard, maybe even a working prototype. It looked real. It worked. For a moment, it felt like you cracked how to build app with AI without hiring a dev team. Then things slowed down. Login flows broke. APIs

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Sector Snapshot: Autonomous Vehicle Funding More Than Triples In 2026 To Hit Record Amount

Funding to autonomous vehicle startups has seen a massive resurgence in 2026, more than tripling so far this year compared to all of 2025 globally, Crunchbase data shows. Several multibillion-dollar megadeals drove the spike in first-quarter investment. That signals investors aren’t just paying for research anymore, but betting on companies that are ready to scale

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Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere

Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug development and improve our understanding of disease. But to turn AI into novel treatments we need to get the latest, most powerful models into the hands of scientists.The problem is that most scientists aren’t machine-learning experts. Now the company OpenProtein.AI is helping scientists stay on the

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Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers

GetWhys, an AI-powered customer intelligence platform, has raised $5.2 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The company described the financing as a “seed II” round. It builds upon a $2.75 million “seed I” round the company raised in February 2025, bringing its total raised to about $8 million. Epic Ventures led its latest

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These 3 Charts Show How Venture Capital Has Concentrated At The Top In 2026

Q1 2026 marked an all-time quarterly high for venture investment, thanks to the biggest funding deal ever for a private company. But those milestones mask a different reality for many startups on the ground: While more money than ever is being invested in the private markets, that’s thanks to larger checks, not more of them.

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Exclusive: Repeat Founders Raise $20M For Spektr, A Fintech Compliance Startup, In NEA-Led Series A

For the founders of Spektr, the journey didn’t start with the Danish startup’s inception in 2023; it began a decade ago while working in the trenches of a payments company. “We have this saying between the two of us,” explains CEO Mikkel Skarnager, referring to CTO and co-founder Ciprian Florescu. “If there’s anything he can’t

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I Sold My Startup A Year After Founding It. Here’s Why That Was The Fastest Way To Build Real-World Healthcare AI

By Louis Blankemeier In October 2024, my co-founders and I set out to make our Ph.D. research useful in the real world. We had built AI models that could interpret medical images such as X-rays and CT scans across tens of thousands of potential diagnoses, generating comprehensive radiology reports that mirror how radiologists reason in

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