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It was another big month for megadeals. You had to raise more than $150M to make the top 10 list this month — as investors put money into everything from defense tech to semiconductors to biotech. news.crunchbase.com/venture/bigges…

So far this year, 35% of U.S. startup investment has gone to AI-related companies, per Crunchbase data. That appears to be the highest percentage on record, besting even 2023. news.crunchbase.com/ai/record-shar…

It's been a big day for AI, as the industry saw two big raises — including artificial intelligence research lab Safe Superintelligence, which raised $1 billion from a litany of big-name investors including a16z and Sequoia Capital. news.crunchbase.com/ai/startup-saf…

Funding was down month over month by 37% and year over year by 24%. AI was the leading sector with $4.3B raised, around 24% of global funding in August. The second leading sector was healthcare/biotech with $3.5B invested. news.crunchbase.com/venture/monthl…

Despite the local unrest and economic uncertainty, the Israeli tech industry has shown resilience, especially with M&A trends since the start of 2024 when compared to the same period in 2023. Strategic adviser Itay Sagie dives into the numbers. news.crunchbase.com/ma/israeli-tec…

Last month asteroid mining startup — AstroForge — locked up a $40M Series A, the latest good-sized round that has helped space tech startups nearly reach last year’s venture funding total — just two-thirds into this year. news.crunchbase.com/venture/space-…

Investors were still hungover from the long holiday weekend, as big rounds rolled in slow for the week. Only three topped $100 million. However, the week did see a massive $1 billion raise for — what else? — an AI company. news.crunchbase.com/venture/bigges…

Global venture funding slowed last month, reaching $18 billion — the lowest monthly funding so far in 2024, Crunchbase data shows. Funding was down month over month by 36% and year over year by 23% from $23.7 billion in August 2023. news.crunchbase.com/venture/monthl…

Funding to VC-backed space tech startups has nearly reached the $6 billion mark this year, quickly closing in on the $6.2 billion the sector raised in 2023. news.crunchbase.com/venture/space-…

August was another big month for megadeals. You had to raise more than $150 million to make the top 10 list — as investors put money into everything from defense tech to semiconductors to biotech. news.crunchbase.com/venture/bigges…

In busier years for tech IPOs, the week after Labor Day is a brisk period for roadshows by companies looking to make an autumn market debut. This year, however, isn’t playing out that way. news.crunchbase.com/public/ipo-mar…

Summer vacations and the laid-back nature of this time of year may have caused some to miss the intriguing startups that raised cash in August. But here's a short list that includes everything from space mining to a developer of new and improved wood. news.crunchbase.com/venture/intere…

Faisal Aftab, of Pakistan's Zayn Venture Capital, talks about the country’s underfunded startup scene, his plans to boost it with his role in the soon-to-be-launched “Shark Tank Pakistan,” and which sectors the panel of judges are likely to hear from. news.crunchbase.com/venture/pakist…

Despite a slowdown in venture investment in Pakistan, some of the country’s most prominent startups in sectors like delivery, e-commerce and online banking have actually been getting funded. Using Crunchbase data, here’s what we found. news.crunchbase.com/venture/funded…

With out-of-pocket health spending and high-deductible health plans on the rise, more U.S. venture investment is going to companies innovating around these themes. Consumers aren’t exactly elated at the trend. news.crunchbase.com/health-wellnes…

AI-enhanced work assistant and enterprise search startup Glean raised more than $260M in a Series E funding at a $4.6B valuation less than seven months after closing its $200M Series D. news.crunchbase.com/ai/work-assist…

Getting the right investors at the right time can be vital to a startup’s success, especially during the early stages, writes Maschmeyer Group Ventures' Marc Schröder, who lays out the multistage challenges founders face. news.crunchbase.com/startups/early…

August seems to have been a slow month all the way around. Funding overall was down for the month, and in the U.S. no investor consummated very many deals. news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-a…

Six of the new companies added to the The Crunchbase Unicorn Board are U.S. based, while China and India each counted one new unicorn in August. The most highly valued was Huawei's smart car subsidiary Yinwang Smart Technology, valued at $16 billion. news.crunchbase.com/venture/unicor…

Credit card giant Mastercard has agreed to buy threat intelligence company Recorded Future from Insight Partners for $2.65 billion. The deal represents a nice return for the private equity firm, which bought the startup in 2019 for $780 million. news.crunchbase.com/ma/mastercard-…