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Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet
14+ hour, 22+ min ago (752+ words) Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC,…...
AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (459+ words) Seed funding trends tell us a lot about how savvy investors see the future unfolding. And lately, the data tells us there’s great concern about cybersecurity risks posed by AI. It’s a worry that spilled over into headlines last week,…...
Schneider Electric’s VC Arm: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (1558+ words) This is an ongoing series on investors focused on rebuilding the physical layer. Previous interviews in the series were with ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, founder of Gigascale Capital, and Peter Barrett, a decade-long investor at Playground Global. Crunchbase News spoke…...
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (544+ 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…...
General Catalyst Takes The Lead Over Y Combinator In Backing $5M+ Fintech Deals
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (402+ words) For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data. Notably, the quarter also marked the busiest one for General…...
The Rise And Rise Of Billion-Dollar-Plus Rounds
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (501+ words) Startup funding used to be associated with smallish bets on promising founders. But times change. While financings of a few million haven’t gone away, today most venture capital actually goes to rounds of a billion dollars or more. Moreover, it…...
Led By DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Rush Onto The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In June
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (340+ words) A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion in value. Ten of those companies were AI labs, collectively valued at $65 billion. The most well-known was Beijing-based open source model developer DeepSeek — at…...
Dell Technologies Capital: How To Build A Deep-Tech Startup For A Market That Isn’t Ready Yet And Why AI Won’t Kill SaaS
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (1894+ words) Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, began his career as a technologist. He holds degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, as well as a Ph.D., but early on found himself gravitating away from purely technical work toward…...
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI
1+ week, 3+ day ago (629+ 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…...
The Billion-Dollar Seed Isn’t The Deal You Think It Is
1+ week, 5+ day ago (566+ words) Everywhere you look, venture headlines imply that seed rounds have meaningfully changed shape. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for a company that didn’t exist a week earlier. Project Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion out the gate. Unconventional AI hit $475 million two months…...