The market for private-company shares has become a much bigger part of the startup ecosystem. In this Crunchbase News Q&A, ...

The traditional VC model funds a risky search for product-market fit, argues guest author Richard de Silva of Lateral ...

Amid fierce competition for an edge in the AI race, well-funded startups commonly find it’s simply faster to buy another ...

In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up dramatically — almost 4x — compared to the second half ...

The sectors leading the herd to the Unicorn Board in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, ...

So far this year, 250 companies have joined the unicorn ranks through Aug. 15, up from 2025's 193 companies. Leading sectors ...

Massive AI spending has helped push earnings and valuations for semiconductor industry leaders to record levels, prompting ...

The best boards continuously evaluate selling alongside scaling, pivoting, or staying independent, especially when the ...

The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies developing AI inference technology, a video-creation ...

Our third in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Tabs founder Ali Hussain, who ...

This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or recycling, to another that promises to help people ...

Databricks is back raising another $5 billion, after it raised that amount just eight months ago. The largest fundings this week also went to an AI neolab, data center and electricity storage, defense ...