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China Leads Asia’s Startup Funding To Its Highest Level In More Than 3 Years

Joanna Glasner

April 13, 2026

Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up...

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: SiFive Leads With $400M For Custom Chip Designs As Aviation, Biotech And Defense Startups Also Raise Big

Marlize van Romburgh

April 10, 2026

While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospace...

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Exclusive: Juno, CPA-Founded Startup That Aims To Make Tax Returns Less Painful With AI, Raises $12M

Mary Ann Azevedo

April 9, 2026

AI tax prep automation startup Juno, founded to address the opportunities — and risks — that come with advances in AI, and built for underserved SMB...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Crypto • Fintech • Regional • Seed funding • Startups • Venture

Global Investors Help Boost Latin America’s Late-Stage Funding Boom In Q1

Mary Ann Azevedo

April 9, 2026

Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the three-month period ending March 31 — up year...

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Most Active And Highest-Spending Startup Investors Diverged In Q1

Joanna Glasner

April 8, 2026

The investors backing the highest number of startup rounds in a record-setting Q1 were mostly not the ones writing the biggest checks. And the ones...

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Credit Card Backed By Mineral Rights, Flying Ferries, And A Foundation AI Model For Plants

Marlize van Romburgh

April 7, 2026

In a quarter when nearly two-thirds of global venture capital went to just four companies, it’s easy to lose track of the many other companies...

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North America Q1 Funding Surges Across Stages To Record Level

Joanna Glasner

April 6, 2026

U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds in the first quarter of 2026 per...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Communications tech • Seed funding • Startups • Venture

Exclusive: Miravoice, Builder Of An AI ‘Interviewer’ To Conduct Phone Surveys, Raises $6.3M

Mary Ann Azevedo

April 2, 2026

Miravoice, a startup using AI voice agents to conduct long-form phone surveys, has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round, the company tells...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Robotics • Seed funding • Startups • Venture

The Largest Recent Seed Rounds Are All For AI Companies

Joanna Glasner

March 31, 2026

A majority of top seed funding recipients in the past six months operate at the intersection of AI and the physical world. Using Crunchbase data, we...

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Seed Funding Hasn’t Stalled, But It’s Skewing Larger And Is More Competitive Than Ever, Crunchbase Data Shows

Gené Teare

March 26, 2026

Among U.S. seed funding deals, it’s only the upper bands of larger and outlier seed rounds — those $10 million and above — that grew in 2025...

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Intersection Of Biosecurity And AI Sees Seed-Stage Spike

Joanna Glasner

March 4, 2026

While there are plenty of things to worry about these days, the ability of AI to weaponize biology into one of the largest threats facing our world...