The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows investors poured $300 billion into 6,000 startups globally in the quarter, up over 150%...
M&A
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San Francisco-based OpenAI has turned to M&A to boost its offerings and stay ahead of its rivals through acquisitions, which total 17 companies in...
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To get a sense who’s buying in bulk, we used ½ûÂþÌìÌà data to put together a list of 79 companies that acquired three or more seed- or venture...
Small and mid-sized deals are not a long-term growth area for M&A, by many measures, but collectively they can add up to a tidy sum. The total deal...
A host of interesting, under-the-radar recently funded startups caught our attention in the past month: one that’s developing nuclear-waste generated...
Over the past two calendar years, acquirers have agreed to pay more than $38 billion to purchase venture-backed companies in ½ûÂþÌìÌà biotech...
A total of 31 companies joined The ½ûÂþÌìÌà Unicorn Board in January, the largest count of companies to join in a single month since June 2022...
Startup investors are increasingly turning to nuclear fusion and fission startups to supply our power-hungry era, and they’re not afraid to write big...
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How much money would it take to up all of the 100 most-valuable U.S. private, venture-backed startups at their current valuations? About $3.5...
While total late-stage investment has risen in the past few years, less is going to smaller deals. Funding to late-stage rounds of $30 million and...
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Google last year partook in the largest number of startup deals in recent years, ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows, and those rounds had the highest collective...
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