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...
In a quarter when nearly two-thirds of global venture capital went to just four companies, it’s easy to lose track of the many other companies...
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...
Whoop, which provides wearable fitness technology and a subscription platform that tracks physiological data for insights, announced Tuesday that it...
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...
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by ¸½½üÉÏÃÅ data, which shows...
Kleiner Perkins' fundraise includes $1 billion for KP22, a fund to back early-stage companies, and $2.5 billion targeted for growth-stage investments.
The size of the largest U.S. deals this week was smaller than in recent weeks, and heavily featured cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups...
Co-founded by Stripes alum Sam Gerstenzang, online funeral planning startup Meadow Memorials has raised a $9 million Series A funding round led by...
The race to back the next generation of billion-dollar startups accelerated last year as the stable of unicorn startups filled up again. A total of...


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