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Latin American startup investment climbed by 14.3% in 2025, driven by a boost in both early- and late-stage funding, Crunchbase data shows. Overall, venture funding in the region increased to $4.1 billion across seed- through growth-stage deals in 2025, up from $3.6 billion in 2024. Investors active in the area who spoke with Crunchbase News […]
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If you’re looking for new up-and-comers in venture capital, don’t read our rankings of the most active investors in 2025. That’s because this past year, the list almost exclusively featured longstanding, familiar names. These are firms that routinely topped prior rankings, and for the most part they only got busier in 2025. This is certainly
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A boom year for North American startup funding ended on an up note. Investors poured $280 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies in 2025, per Crunchbase data. It was the highest annual total in four years, with funding up a whopping 46% from 2024. The fourth quarter also delivered a
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After three years of declining or flat venture investment, global startup funding grew year over year in 2025, Crunchbase data shows. Last year was also defined by new startup records: the largest private funding round of all time ($40 billion to OpenAI), the largest private valuation ever recorded (SpaceX’s $800 billion valuation), and the largest
It’s not a shocker to see that U.S. semiconductor startup funding charted record highs in 2025. After all, that is the year Nvidia cemented its status as the most valuable technology company, with a staggering $4.6 trillion market cap. Public valuations of semiconductor companies also hit a historical peak, with sector-focused funds like the VanEck
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Editor’s note: This article is part of our 2026 forecast coverage. See our IPO market outlook here, our startup M&A forecast here, and our venture investment outlook here. After a prolonged slowdown, the IPO market is showing clearer signs of life. As our 2026 IPO outlook forecast details, improving public-market conditions, stabilizing interest rates and
In startup circles, 2025 will be remembered as a busy year for big AI rounds. A total of 15 companies secured venture funding rounds of $2 billion or more last year, per Crunchbase data. Among them, they amassed more than $100 billion from those financings. The majority were generative AI companies, and they accrued most
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Editor’s note: This article is part of our 2026 forecast coverage. See our IPO market outlook here. For years, industry observers have predicted an uptick in startup M&A activity, in part due to the limited number of companies going public. As the IPO dam finally broke in 2025, we didn’t see a huge surge in
Editor’s note: In 2025, Crunchbase News heard from six active startup investors in artificial intelligence. Below, we publish highlights from those interviews or presentations. Read the full stories with Accel, Dell Technologies, Foundation Capital, GV, AI Fund and Sierra Ventures, as well as highlights from interviews in 2023 and 2024. AI investment accelerated in 2025,
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