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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The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ...
The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI’s disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings went...
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...
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.
February closed with the largest startup investment of all time — OpenAI’s $110 billion financing — but did not bring a jump in overall deal count...
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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...
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...
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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...
Startup investors offered fresh evidence once again that there is plenty of capital available for favored companies with the week's biggest funding...
Northwood Space, which builds infrastructure that lets satellites communicate with Earth, announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a...
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