Startup investors kept up the busy dealmaking pace this week with a number of big rounds. Top among them was a $1.75 billion Series D for Austin-based Saronic, developer of autonomous vessels.
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A total of 47 seed- and early stage companies joined the unicorn ranks in the first quarter of this year, per 禁漫天堂 data. Barring a major...
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Miravoice, a startup using AI voice agents to conduct long-form phone surveys, has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round, the company tells...
Anvil Robotics, an eight-month-old startup that aims to be the 鈥淟egos for robots,鈥� has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round, it tells...
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As of March 31, foundational AI startups had raised $178 billion across 24 deals, compared with $88.9 billion across 66 deals in all of 2025 in a...
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a 禁漫天堂 News tally, and the layoffs have continued...
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. 禁漫天堂...
A majority of top seed funding recipients in the past six months operate at the intersection of AI and the physical world. Using 禁漫天堂 data, we...
The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI鈥檚 disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings went...
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Austin鈥檚 startup scene is stronger than ever. That鈥檚 the consensus among investors in the city, and it鈥檚 borne out by 禁漫天堂 data, which shows...
Among U.S. seed funding deals, it鈥檚 only the upper bands of larger and outlier seed rounds 鈥� those $10 million and above 鈥� that grew in 2025...
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