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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Big Week For Big Checks
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (599+ words) Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced…...
No Summer Doldrums For Active Startup Investors In July
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (481+ words) Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names leading the tallies for deal count and size. Among lead investors, Khosla Ventures topped the ranks last month, while Y Combinator was by far the busiest backer by…...
‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (873+ words) Editor’s note: The following is the first profile in a series of articles in coming weeks about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. In November 2022, Adeel Khan was doing something rare for a longtime educator:…...
‘A Rare Land-Grab Moment’: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy On The Next Wave of AI And Putting $3B In New Capital To Work
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (1015+ words) In June, Menlo Ventures footnote]Menlo Ventures is an investor in Crunchbase. They have no say in our editorial process. For more, head here.[/footnote] announced $3 billion in new capital across two funds, marking the largest raise in its 50-year…...
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (565+ words) Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced…...
These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year
1+ week, 1+ day ago (870+ words) A single midsize seed round doesn’t reveal much about what’s trending as the hot emerging area for startup innovation. Looking across hundreds of financings, however, one forms a clearer image about where the hotspots are clustering. That was the intent…...
Battery Storage Startup Antora Closes $550M Series C In One Of Year’s Largest Cleantech Rounds
1+ week, 1+ day ago (333+ words) Antora Energy, a company that provides energy through thermal batteries to data centers, announced Thursday that it has raised $550 million in a Series C funding round. The company did not reveal its valuation. With so much data center demand amid…...
Founder Traits And One Big AI Test: How Former NEA Partner Vanessa Larco Picks Winners
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1828+ words) In early 2025, Vanessa Larco teamed up with Mercedes Bent to found Premise VC, a firm focused on backing early-stage technical founders building durable, high-growth software. Before that, Larco had spent nearly eight years as a partner at New Enterprise Associates…...
Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A ‘Deal GPS’ For Enterprise Sales
1+ week, 3+ day ago (879+ words) While working as a product tech lead at a startup, Rachit Kataria watched a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar enterprise account suddenly fall into jeopardy. After pausing his entire engineering team’s workload for two weeks to ship a requested fix, he discovered the effort…...
Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
1+ week, 2+ day ago (696+ words) Enterprise AI startup Freehand has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to scale its autonomous AI agents, which manage complex supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprise companies. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners co-led the financing,…...