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Frontier Labs And Robotics Companies Again Top List Of New Unicorns In April 

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A total of 28 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April, Crunchbase data shows, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the second consecutive month. Two newly founded AI labs, both based in London and both with researchers from DeepMind, raised large rounds out of the gate and made […]

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Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development

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Blitzy, an autonomous software development startup, said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion, making it the latest company to receive major investor backing to streamline coding for large enterprises with the help of AI.    Cambridge, Mass.-based Blitzy has now raised more than $204.4 million. Northzone led

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Billion-Dollar AI Rounds Push April To Third-Highest Startup Funding Month In A Year

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Global venture funding reached $56 billion in April, marking the third-largest monthly funding in a year. Funding was up 100% year over year from $26 billion, according to Crunchbase data.  This increase was driven by large rounds to AI lab Anthropic and Jeff Bezos’s Project Prometheus, which is focused on AI manufacturing. The two companies

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech Leads With Multiple Large Deals, Topped By $600M For Space Security Startup True Anomaly

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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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Swedish Legal Tech Startup Legora Lands Another $50M In Nvidia-Led Series D Extension

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Legora, an AI platform built for lawyers, has raised a $50 million extension from Nvidia’s venture arm, NVentures, reports CNBC. The raise brings the Swedish company’s recent Series D funding round total to $600 million. At the time of the first close in March, Legora was valued at $5.5 billion. Atlassian, Adams Street Partners and

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Get To Know The Latest Class Of Ultra-Fast Fundraising Unicorns

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In every startup cycle, a few fortunate founders find themselves inundated with term sheets at rapidly growing valuations. This phenomenon has been on the rise over the past couple years, driven by voracious investor appetite for AI early movers. Since 2024, an estimated 207 AI-focused companies have joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board. That’s roughly half

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Seed Funding Is Bigger Than Ever — And Harder To Get

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

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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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The IPO Pipeline Finally Gets Interesting

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Any startup CEO can talk about future plans for going public. But until a company actually files for an IPO, it’s all just speculation. We’re not talking about confidential filings either. Sure, they signal serious intent and contain valuable information for regulators. But for the rest of us, it’s the public S-1 filing that signifies

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Sector Snapshot: EV Funding On Track For Modest Gains 

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Currently, electric cars 1 represent about 1 in 4 global vehicle purchases. Depending on how you look at it, that’s either a compelling growth story or a disappointing share relative to potential. On the positive side, EVs are gaining ground. In 2025, sales increased by more than 20% year on year, rising to 21 million units,

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