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Global Investors Help Boost Latin America’s Late-Stage Funding Boom In Q1

A boom in late-stage and growth funding helped buoy venture funding in Latin America for the first quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows. Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the three-month period ending March 31. That was up 12% year over year and down 6% from […]

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Most Active And Highest-Spending Startup Investors Diverged In Q1

The investors backing the highest number of startup rounds this past quarter were mostly not the ones writing the biggest checks. And the ones funding the largest deals were not the most prolific dealmakers. That, in broad strokes, was the state of startup funding in Q1 of this year, a period characterized by record-setting rounds

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Most Active And Highest-Spending Startup Investors Diverged In Q1

The investors backing the highest number of startup rounds this past quarter were mostly not the ones writing the biggest checks. And the ones funding the largest deals were not the most prolific dealmakers. That, in broad strokes, was the state of startup funding in Q1 of this year, a period characterized by record-setting rounds

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Most Active And Highest-Spending Startup Investors Diverged In Q1

The investors backing the highest number of startup rounds this past quarter were mostly not the ones writing the biggest checks. And the ones funding the largest deals were not the most prolific dealmakers. That, in broad strokes, was the state of startup funding in Q1 of this year, a period characterized by record-setting rounds

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North America Q1 Funding Surges Across Stages To Record Level

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

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Largest Financings Went To Defense, Wearables, Energy And Security

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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This Is A Momentous Year For Early-Stage Unicorns

As global venture funding kicks off this year at record-setting levels, startup investors are also minting new early-stage unicorns at an unprecedented clip. A total of 47 seed- and early-stage companies joined the unicorn ranks in the first quarter of this year, per Crunchbase data. Barring a major slowdown, that puts 2026 on track to

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Exclusive: Miravoice, Builder Of An AI ‘Interviewer’ To Conduct Phone Surveys, Raises $6.3M

Miravoice, a startup using AI voice agents to conduct long-form phone surveys, has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Unusual Ventures led the financing, which included participation from Neo, 25madison and angel investors from companies such as Ramp, PubMatic, Atlassian and Google. Miravoice has developed an AI

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Sector Snapshot: Venture Funding To Foundational AI Startups In Q1 Was Double All Of 2025

Funding to foundational AI startups, also known as generative AI companies or frontier labs, has doubled in the first quarter of 2026 so far compared to all of 2025, Crunchbase data shows. That funding is increasingly concentrated in a handful of foundational giants, including OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. In 2025 and early 2026, the market

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Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To $300B 

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

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