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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
North America Q1 Funding Surges Across Stages To Record Level Read More »
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
Update: The data and charts in this report were updated at 11:30 a.m. PT on April 1, 2026, to reflect the latest data in Crunchbase for Q1 2026. The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured
Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To $300B Read More »
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
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Varied Week For Big Deals, Led By AI And Defense Read More »
Before pulling data, one usually has a preconceived idea of what the results will show. In this case, looking at recent U.S. Series B investments, my assumption was that big rounds would be dominated by a few buzzy AI sectors. The reality, however, looks far more diversified. Startups securing the largest rounds run the gamut
The Series B Pipeline Looks Refreshingly Diversified Read More »
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
Active Investors Spent More On Fewer Deals In February Read More »
Crunchbase data shows global venture investment totaled $189 billion in February — the largest startup funding month on record — although 83% of capital raised went to just three companies. They include OpenAI, which raised $110 billion, also in the largest round ever raised by a private, venture-backed company. The record month for venture funding took place
A total of 31 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in January, the largest count of companies to join in a single month since June 2022. Collectively, those companies added $9.3 billion in funding and $58.5 billion in value to the board. And underlining the pace at which some startups are now sprinting to billion-dollar-plus
January Delivers Highest New Unicorn Count In More Than 3 Years Read More »
About three years ago, a check for $1 trillion would theoretically 1 be enough to buy up all of the 100 most-valuable U.S. private, venture-backed startups. Today, it wouldn’t even be enough to buy one, if it was the newly combined SpaceX and xAI, now valuing itself at $1.25 trillion. It would also fall short
In The Era Of Unicorn Valuation Escalation, A Trillion Dollars Isn’t What It Used To Be Read More »
