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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Defense And Space Tech Lead For Large Rounds
This week brought another plethora of large funding rounds for startups and growth-stage companies. Shield AI, a defense tech player focused on autonomy and virtual simulations, secured the largest financing, bringing in $2 billion. Next on the list was drone delivery provider Zipline…
How To Challenge A Monopoly In The AI Age
AI chip startups can challenge the sector's Goliath's by building substantially better hardware for emerging inference demands, much as Juniper challenged Cisco with a new architecture suited to the internet’s rapid growth. To win customers, writes guest author R K Anand, co-founder and chief…
General Catalyst Tops Lead Investors For October In Busy Month For US Startup Dealmaking
October was a busy month for U.S. startup funding, led by well-known venture investors with a healthy appetite for big deals. We take a look at active investor rankings across three categories: lead deal count, largest lead investments and total venture rounds.
Exclusive: Nurx And Journey Clinical Co-Founders Raise $6M For Mental Health Startup Siggy
Siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress between appointments with licensed clinicians, the startup told Crunchbase News exclusively.
Dropbox Plans $350M AI Infrastructure Deal With Tigris Buy, Its Biggest Acquisition Yet
Dropbox has announced plans to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million in a transaction the company told Crunchbase News would mark its largest acquisition since its founding in 2007.
Sector Snapshot: Construction Robotics Funding Soars To $1.6B, Tripling Previous Peak
Companies spanning construction and robotics have raised about $1.6 billion so far this year — more than 4x the $389 million recorded in all of 2025 — according to Crunchbase data. The surge was driven by three companies that raised the majority of the funding.
Crunchbase Data: Less Than 2% Of 2026 Venture Funding Went To Post-Election Red States
So far this year, less than 2% of all startup investment has gone to companies in post-election red states, a share that is much smaller than in years’ past due to five states shifting to purple in the most recent election.
Most Venture Capital Is Going To Companies That Are Founded Or Led By Billionaires
More than half of all seed- through growth-stage venture capital raised in the U.S. so far in 2026 went to seven companies founded or led by men who are already billionaires. Together, these companies raised more than $260 billion in equity funding in the first 10 months of the year.
China’s Largest Startup Deal Ever Lifts Global Venture Funding To $59B In October
Global venture funding in October totaled $59 billion, a 45% jump from a year earlier, per Crunchbase data, in large part due to a record-setting $15.9 billion funding round for China’s DeepSeek.
More Money, Fewer Checks: These 3 Charts Show The Divide Behind VC’s Record Funding Year
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI And Predictions Lead The Lineup
This week featured a robust lineup of large rounds, led by manufacturing startup Re:Build, which closed on $2.1 billion, and predictions marketplace Kalshi, which picked up another $1 billion.
Sector Snapshot: Travel Tech Funding Heads Toward Multiyear Low Despite AI Push
Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI hasn’t managed to reverse the funding slowdown. We share what a review of Crunchbase data shows.
Series B Funding Is Up, But Fewer Deals Are Getting Done
Crunchbase data shows that so far this year, investors have poured around $48 billion into financings around the Series B stage, the highest tally in years. Yet round counts are below year-ago levels and are on track for a multiyear low. We take a look at the data.
Jumbo Series A Rounds Hiding The Real Squeeze On Seed Startups
AI megarounds are masking a shrinking Series A market, leaving seed founders facing higher revenue expectations and longer timelines despite larger seed checks. To improve their chances, MGV's Marc Schröder says, founders should size their seed funding around Series A milestones.
Exclusive: Numeracle Raises $28M To Keep Legitimate Business Calls From Spam Label
Numeracle, a McLean, Virginia-based company that verifies businesses and links their identities to the phone numbers they use to contact customers, has raised $28 million from Edison Partners to help businesses whose calls are incorrectly labeled as spam or blocked by phone carriers.
The Invisible Graph: How Companies Grow Revenue And Still Lose Value
Revenue growth does not guarantee a larger exit, as declining valuation multiples can outweigh operating gains and reduce enterprise value. Guest author Itay Sagie suggests that founders and boards should track valuation alongside financial performance, model the effects of delaying a sale, and…
From Monk To Startups: One Founder’s Unusual Path To Building Government Software
After living as a monk while managing Graves’ disease, a former Facebook engineer left Big Tech to pursue meaningful work, eventually founding government software startup FSH Technologies which aims to improve processes such as school food services and public records management through the use of…
Crunchbase Data Shows Q3 Robotics Startup Funding Jumps 185% As US And China Lead Physical AI Push
Venture funding to robotics startups has soared in 2026, with the bulk of investment going to companies based in China and the U.S., Crunchbase data shows. All told, global venture funding to robotics startups totaled $9.9 billion in Q3, more than double the $4.3 billion invested in Q3 2025, per…
Your AI Agents Need A Chief Operating Officer, Too
Scaling AI agents requires treating them like employees in regulated roles, with written rules, clearly defined responsibilities and a named human manager accountable for their performance. Guest author Rick Folgmann, COO at Get Covered, tells companies they should start with tasks governed by…
Some Observations About Anthropic’s IPO Filing
In an S-1 filing today preceding what could be the largest IPO ever, Anthropic laid out extensive new details about its earnings, growth, key stakeholders and the risks it faces going forward. Clocking in at 335 pages, the document wasn’t exactly light reading. However, in a preliminary once-over…
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