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Exclusive: Ownwell Lands $30M To Help Homeowners Lower Their Property Tax Bills

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Ownwell, an AI-powered startup that appeals property taxes on behalf of homeowners, has secured $50 million in financing, including $30 million in equity and $20 million in debt, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. With the latest Series B raise, Austin-based Ownwell says it has now raised $54 million in total equity funding since its […]

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Crunchbase Data: The AI Boom Has Drastically Changed Who’s Funding The Hottest Companies In 2025 Vs. 2021

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As global venture funding in 2025 ratcheted up to the third-highest total on record after the peak years of 2021 and 2022, capital also concentrated further, with the number of companies raising rounds of $50 million or more drastically shrinking roughly by half to a cohort of just 1,440. The investors backing the hottest companies

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Only 2 States Saw Their Share Of US Venture Funding Rise Last Year

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A rising tide may lift all boats. But lately it lifts California boats the most. In 2025, only two states with a sizable venture scene saw a year-over-year gain in their share of U.S. venture funding: California and Washington. This held true even though several others, including New York and Texas, actually saw a pretty

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January Delivers Highest New Unicorn Count In More Than 3 Years

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A total of 31 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in January, the largest count of companies to join in a single month since June 2022. Collectively, those companies added $9.3 billion in funding and $58.5 billion in value to the board. And underlining the pace at which some startups are now sprinting to billion-dollar-plus

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Anthropic Raises $30B At $380B Valuation In Second-Largest Venture Funding Deal Of All Time

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Generative AI company Anthropic announced Thursday that it raised $30 billion in a massive Series G funding round that values it at $380 billion post-money. The financing marks the largest venture funding deal of 2026 so far and the second-largest of all time, per Crunchbase data, following only rival OpenAI’s $40 billion funding in 2025.

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Next-Gen Nuclear Funding Looks Livelier Than Ever Following Inertia’s $450M Raise

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As global energy demand continues to surge, driven by both rising household consumption and fast-expanding AI infrastructure, startup investors are increasingly turning to nuclear fusion and fission startups to supply our power-hungry era. They’re not afraid to write big checks either. The latest evidence of this was a $450 million Series A that Livermore, California-based

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From AI Hype To AI Math: The Market Just Changed The Rules

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For a while, AI felt like a cheat code. Mention AI on an earnings call, announce a bigger data center plan, sign a flashy partnership, and the market filled in the rest. Spend meant ambition. Ambition which meant valuation. That world is gone. Over the past few quarters, markets have quietly flipped from “reward any

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Amid Record Robotics Funding, Apptronik Raises $520M Series A Extension To Boost Production Of Humanoid Robot Apollo

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AI-powered robotics company Apptronik announced Wednesday that it has raised $520 million in an extension of its $415 million Series A raise in February 2025, bringing the total round to over $935 million. Existing backers B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and Peak6 joined new investors including AT&T Ventures and manufacturing giant John Deere participating in the

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High-Spending Investors Give 2026 An Active Start

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Big-name investors. Big checks. Big deal flow. That, in the most basic prose, was the general atmosphere for U.S. startup funding in January. Well-known firms topped the ranks of active investors, including a few that were best known as prolific dealmakers during the last market boom. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz ranked

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Exclusive: Winn.ai Raises $18M Series A For AI-Powered Real-Time Sales Assistant

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Winn.ai, which has built an artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The company provides sales reps with a real-time AI assistant that “guides” them during a prospect call while integrating with enterprise CRM and business intelligence systems. It also aims to

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