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What Startups Are Selling For The Person Who Has Everything

Joanna Glasner

November 25, 2025

While there’s no single explanation for the decline in investment to consumer-facing product startups, it doesn’t help that this has been a tough...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Clean tech and energy • Defense tech • E-commerce • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • M&A • Sales & Marketing • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Transportation & Logistics • Venture • Web3

Unicorns Pick Up For The Second Month In A Row, Adding Close To $45B To The Board

Gené Teare

November 19, 2025

A total of 20 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in October, adding $44.5 billion in value. This was the highest valuation amount added to...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Defense tech • E-commerce • Startups • Venture

Bezos Launches AI Startup With $6.2B In Reported Funding

Joanna Glasner

November 17, 2025

According to a report in The New York Times, Jeff Bezos will serve as co-CEO of a new artificial intelligence startup, Project Prometheus, which is...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • E-commerce • Sales & Marketing • Startups • Transportation & Logistics • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Defense Tech Take The Lead

Joanna Glasner

November 14, 2025

The largest rounds this week went to AI and defense tech companies, amid a generally busy period for big financings, with coding automation platform...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Cybersecurity • E-commerce • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Manufacturing • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Fintech And E-Commerce In The Lead

Joanna Glasner

October 31, 2025

The week’s largest funding rounds confirmed that we’re still very much in the AI era. This included the biggest deal, a $350 million Series C for AI...

E-commerce • Startups • Venture

Whatnot Lands $225M Series F, More Than Doubles Valuation to $11.5B Since January

Mary Ann Azevedo

October 28, 2025

Live shopping platform and marketplace Whatnot has closed a $225 million Series F round, more than doubling its valuation to $11.5 billion in less...

E-commerce • Fintech • IPO • M&A • Media & entertainment tech

StubHub Falls A Bit In First-Day Trading

Joanna Glasner

September 17, 2025

Shares of StubHub rose slightly in first-day trading Wednesday, indicating moderate but not red-hot investor demand for the long-awaited debut.

E-commerce • Fintech • Public Markets

Klarna Shares Pop In Long-Awaited Public Market Entry

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 10, 2025

Shares of Klarna opened about 30% higher in first-day trading, at $52, on Wednesday in the company’s long-awaited initial public offering, proving...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Communications tech • E-commerce • M&A • Startups • Venture

Why Big Investors Are All Ears For Voice AI Startups

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 10, 2025

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp is undoubtedly the hottest area of tech today, with VC dollars flowing into startups in the space at unprecedented levels...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • E-commerce • Fintech • Startups • Venture

Global Investor Jeremy Kranz On Why Not ‘Everything Important Happens In Silicon Valley’

Mary Ann Azevedo

August 26, 2025

In this Crunchbase News Q&A, longtime global investor Jeremy Kranz shares his vision for his firm Sentinel Global, and observations about, among...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Cybersecurity • Defense tech • E-commerce • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Startups • Venture

For Startup Funding, Every State Brings In A Pittance Compared To California

Joanna Glasner

August 18, 2025

A handful of coastal metros, led by the San Francisco Bay Area, have long swallowed up the lion’s share of venture funding, and while the latest data...