European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth. The main driver was AI, which for the first time claimed more than 50% of the...
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While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospace...
Global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $12 billion across 751 deals in 2026 as of April 6, per ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ data. That’s a 5%...
Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the three-month period ending March 31 — up year...
U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds in the first quarter of 2026 per...
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 total of 27 companies joined the ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ last month, including six robotics companies and four semiconductor-related startups. Healthcare...
A fixture in Silicon Valley for decades, Tim Draper has built a reputation for bold, often contrarian bets that have yielded some of the industry’s...
A total of 31 companies joined The ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ in January, the largest count of companies to join in a single month since June 2022...
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...
All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ...


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