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Nvidia To Invest Up To $100B In OpenAI

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 22, 2025

Chipmaker Nvidia announced on Monday that it is investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI, but the investment reportedly comes with conditions.

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Fintech • SaaS • Startups • Venture

With Amazon And Salesforce As Customers, Agentic AI Startup AppZen Lands $180M To ‘Transform’ Finance Teams

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 22, 2025

AppZen, which has built an agentic AI platform for finance teams, has raised $180 million in a Series D round, the company told Crunchbase News...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Robotics • Startups • Venture

These Are The Speediest Companies To Go From Series A To Series C

Joanna Glasner

September 22, 2025

Per Crunchbase data, the past couple of years have seen a sizable cohort of companies that have gone all the way from Series A to Series C between...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Clean tech and energy • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Manufacturing • Startups • Venture

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI And Robotics Headline Busy Week For Dealmaking

Joanna Glasner

September 19, 2025

Another week, another review of giant AI-related financings. For this past week, the standout fundraiser was humanoid robot developer Figure, with...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • M&A • SaaS • Startups • Venture • Workplace

Funding To HR Software Startups Rises As M&A Activity Heats Up

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 19, 2025

Venture investors continue to plow billions of dollars into human resources software, Crunchbase data shows. While funding is on pace to top last...

IPO • Public Markets • Startups • Venture

Netskope Moves Higher In Nasdaq Debut

Joanna Glasner

September 18, 2025

Shares of cybersecurity provider Netskope were up 28% in early first-day trading Thursday, indicating fairly robust investor enthusiasm for a new...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Robotics • Startups • Venture

‘Zero Billion-Dollar Markets’: Inside Foundation Capital’s Strategy To Back Ideas Before They’re Industries

Gené Teare

September 18, 2025

We spoke with Foundation Capital general partner Steve Vassallo about the firm's AI investments, the closing of its $600 million fund, and its...

Public Markets • Startups • Travel & tourism • Venture

The Right Way To Pitch VCs And Accelerators (And Why Most Founders Get It Wrong)

Guest Author

September 18, 2025

The best founders pitch to find believers by cutting through the noise and commanding investor attention, writes guest author Aaron Tainter of...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Robotics • Startups • Venture

Robotics Funding Crests Higher As Figure Lands Another $1B

Joanna Glasner

September 16, 2025

Robotics startup funding has hit the highest point in years, boosted by Tuesday's giant round for Figure, a San Jose, California-based developer of...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Cybersecurity • Fintech • Startups • Venture

Exclusive: WorkFusion, With Several Big Banks As Customers, Lands $45M For AI Agents ‘To Stop Bad Actors’

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 16, 2025

WorkFusion, a startup founded in 2010 out of MIT Labs, that has developed AI agents for financial crime compliance, has raised $45 million in...

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp • Cybersecurity • Politics and regulation • Startups

How I Stopped A Platform Ransom Against My Startup

Guest Author

September 16, 2025

When a sophisticated international crime group targeted her early-stage startup for ransom, guest author Zainab Ghadiyali went into preservation mode...