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5 days ago · For entrepreneurs, investors, and Crunchbase customers, we narrate how private capital in upstarts today displace the most powerful corporations tomorrow.
Crunchbase Unicorn Company List
2 days ago · The Crunchbase Unicorn Board. The Crunchbase Unicorn Board is a curated list of the most valuable private companies in the world. Powered by Crunchbase’s comprehensive data, this unicorn company list is updated as companies are valued at $1 billion or more in a new funding round.. Valuations are based on companies’ most recently disclosed funding rounds.
The Mixed State Of Startup Funding In 2024, In 11 Charts
Apr 23, 2024 · Startup investors kept a tight hold on their wallets in the first quarter of 2024, Crunchbase data shows. There were big exceptions — some AI, healthcare, energy and robotics startups, among others, received massive investments — but overall the tone was cautious as the year got started. To break it down further, let’s look at 11 charts based on recent Crunchbase data that show the state ...
Global Funding And M&A Picked Up In Q2, While AI Funding …
Jul 9, 2024 · Led by an increase in mega rounds $100 million and above, new data shows global venture funding reached $79 billion in Q2. AI was the leading sector for investment for the first time since the launch of ChatGPT, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. The amount invested in AI doubled this past quarter.
Healthcare And AI Sectors Continue To Lead, While Funding …
Aug 7, 2024 · The next largest sectors for funding in July were hardware companies, raising $3.3 billion, and financial services at $2.6 billion. Financial services, the second-largest sector after healthcare and biotech in 2021 and into 2022 has dropped in rank, but since 2023 has stayed in the top five sectors.
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Putting OpenAI’s Crazy High $100B Valuation Into Context
Aug 29, 2024 · These days, hearing about hot companies in generative AI raising huge rounds at multibillion-dollar valuations has gotten pretty routine. However, when news broke this week that OpenAI is in talks for a new funding round at a valuation of over $100 billion, it drove home just how big the stakes have become. The investment, said to include backing from Thrive Capital and Microsoft, represents a ...
SaaS News - Crunchbase News
6 days ago · SaaS News “Software will eat the world,” the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously predicted in 2011.. Twelve years later, and that prediction has borne out: Many of the most highly valued companies and startups in the world are software startups, and SaaS (software as a service) has become a ubiquitous business model in the tech industry.
Three Months To $5B, And More Unicorn News
Oct 16, 2024 · Nine companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in September, including one that took just three months since its founding to reach a $5 billion valuation.. All told, the Unicorn Board now includes just shy of 1,550 companies and $5.2 trillion in value. Four of the new unicorns are U.S. based, two are from India, and there …
Billion-Dollar Exits Board: A List of Large IPOs, M&A Deals And More
There are several ways for a company’s shares to become publicly traded that are similar to an IPO, but not exactly the same.These include via: A direct listing, in which the company goes public without raising capital through the sale of new shares;; A special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a shell company formed specifically to bring …