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A Year Of Misplaced Fear (And Why It’s Time For Investors To Leave The Crowd)

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Sequoia unveils $950M in new early-stage funds as it strives to be ‘only as good as our next investment’

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Crunchbase Data: Global Startup Investment Hit Record $510B In H1 2026 As AI Boom Accelerates Funding And Exits

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London-Based Tapestry VC Closes On $80M Third Fund To Invest In Repeat European Founders

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We Need To Save Venture Capital From Bad Data

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Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives Another Spree Of Megadeals

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6 Startup Investors On What It Will Take To Fund More Black Founders

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Exclusive: XCures Lands $46M Series B To Clean Up Messy Medical Records With AI

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Why Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer Says It’s A Great Time To Build A Hard Tech Company: ‘Infrastructure Is The Moat’

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AppsFlyer Reportedly Lands $1B At $2.7B Valuation To Help Companies Track Digital Ads

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European Investor Seedcamp Closes On $320M Across Two Funds To Back Seed Startups And Reaches $1B AUM

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VC firm 2150 raises €210M fund to solve cities’ climate challenges

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Whoop’s valuation just tripled to $10 billion

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Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World-Model Startup Odyssey Leads With $310M In Slower Week For Large Deals

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The AI Startup Funding Boom Is Not A Global Phenomenon

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: NinjaOne Leads With $400M As Large Deals Also Go To Blockchain, Cloud Infrastructure, Biotech And Robotics

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Before You Cheer The IPO Window, Watch Where The Money Goes

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The $100M+ Round Is Now Just Your Typical Late-Stage Financing

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Sector Snapshot: Semiconductor Startup Funding Still Running Hot

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How Bigger ACVs Are Bringing Direct Sales Back To Vertical AI

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Why SecurityPal is choosing ‘nuanced capital’ over more VC rounds

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Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive

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Whoop’s valuation just tripled to $10 billion

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

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Anthropic Funding Pushed Startup Investment To Near-Record Levels In May As Exit Market Reopened

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VC firm 2150 raises €210M fund to solve cities’ climate challenges

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Navigating The DPI Crunch And Startup Funding

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Bridging Africa’s Innovation Gap: From Potential To Power

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More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 — here they are

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More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 — here they are

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Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy-storage business

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Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy-storage business

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Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy-storage business

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Where Funded Founders Went To School: 2026 Edition

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

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Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries

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

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April’s Most Active US Investors Included Some Usual Suspects, And Some Unusual Ones

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NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers

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From Credit Cards To An AI Concierge: How Amex Ventures Backs Startups Building Autonomous Commerce

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A year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B

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More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 — here they are

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Supabase hit $5B by turning down million-dollar contracts. Here’s why.

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Doorstep raises $8M seed to help find missing food deliveries

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech Leads With Multiple Large Deals, Topped By $600M For Space Security Startup True Anomaly

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Swedish Legal Tech Startup Legora Lands Another $50M In Nvidia-Led Series D Extension

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Get To Know The Latest Class Of Ultra-Fast Fundraising Unicorns

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Seed Funding Is Bigger Than Ever — And Harder To Get

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VC firm 2150 raises €210M fund to solve cities’ climate challenges

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Why SecurityPal is choosing ‘nuanced capital’ over more VC rounds

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Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy-storage business

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

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Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

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Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

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Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

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Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

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Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

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Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

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Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack