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Venture Capital Is Concentrating Faster Than Ever. What Happens To Everyone Else?

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Capital concentration in the private markets is accelerating. Companies with breakout growth or experienced founders in compelling sectors are raising funding at a faster clip, while the rest of the market is increasingly left behind. In 2025, 70% of U.S. funding — more than $200 billion — was invested in 389 companies that raised rounds […]

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Sector Snapshot: Quantum Computing Startup Investment Slows In 2026 While Public Markets Hold Strong

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These are pretty good times to be a public quantum computing company. The leading pure-play names are collectively valued at over $36 billion, bolstered in recent quarters by investor enthusiasm around next-generation computing. On the startup front, however, the scene has been slower to heat up this year. While deal counts remain robust, and big

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anduril Leads Varied Lineup Of Large Deals

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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 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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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk

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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. AI and software continue to draw the biggest share of startup investment, but most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk

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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. AI and software continue to draw the biggest share of startup investment, but most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on

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Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round

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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

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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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NEA’s Tiffany Luck On How Startup Founders Can Build Moats In Vertical AI

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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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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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