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At 175 years old, American Express is one of the oldest and most durable brands still around today. But in the era of AI, the financial services giant is working to evolve from a luxury credit card issuer with benefits to a “global agentic concierge” that autonomously handles everything from dinner reservations to complex international […]
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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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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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
U.S. seed investment is surging, but with more money going into fewer deals, it’s not altogether surprising that the funding uptick isn’t lifting all startup hubs equally. Crunchbase data shows that while seed capital is still flowing nationwide, it’s concentrating in a familiar place: the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2025, the Bay Area expanded
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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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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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Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform that aims to help people build data-driven companies without hiring a data team, has raised $3.7 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Austin-based Dreambase has developed AI-native data agents to do the analytical work that data teams have historically done, according to CEO and co-founder Andy Keil. Andy
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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As a partner at New Enterprise Associates, Tiffany Luck invests in the AI application layer and B2B SaaS. She began on the consumer side at early-stage companies including Lot18 and pioneered the early push of CPG e-commerce at Amazon long before the Whole Foods acquisition. After a pivot into tech M&A at Morgan Stanley and
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