A total of 47 seed- and early stage companies joined the unicorn ranks in the first quarter of this year, per ½ûÂþÌìÌà data. Barring a major slowdown, that puts 2026 on track to deliver the largest cohort of young unicorns to date.
Semiconductors and 5G
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ...
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Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by ½ûÂþÌìÌà data, which shows...
A total of 27 companies joined the Unicorn Board last month, including six robotics companies and four semiconductor-related startups. Healthcare...
Annual Series B funding is moving steadily higher after hitting a low in 2023, ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows, and this year is off to a strong start as well.
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Science Corp., a biotech startup focused on brain-computer interface technologies, announced Thursday that it has closed on a $230 million Series C...
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½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows global venture investment totaled $189 billion in February — the largest startup funding month on record — although 83% of...
It was going to be a fairly business as usual top 10 list this week until OpenAI decided to disrupt our Friday with news that it raised $110 billion...
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OpenAI announced Friday that it has closed on a staggering $110 billion fundraise at an $840 billion post-money valuation. The financing marks the...
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...
½ûÂþÌìÌà News sat down with Sriram Viswanathan, founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, to discuss why the secondary market is accelerating...
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