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The Return Of The Repeat Founder: Inside YC’s Growing Class Of Second-Timers
Startup accelerator Y Combinator has long had a reputation for spotting exceptional first-time founders…
‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs
Editor’s note: The following is the first profile in a series of articles in coming weeks about startup…
Your AI Strategy May Be Destroying Your Exit Value
It seems that more and more boards and founders view AI as a valuation enhancer and future-proof strategy.…
A Record 14 Billion-Dollar Rounds In July Pushed Venture’s Historic Run Higher
Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July. Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year…
Why The Product Manager To CEO Pipeline Is The Underrated Crash Course For Leadership In Tech
By Ben Chisell The road to the top rarely runs in a straight line, but there are less circuitous routes to…
‘A Rare Land-Grab Moment’: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy On The Next Wave of AI And Putting $3B In New Capital To Work
In June, Menlo Ventures footnote]Menlo Ventures is an investor in Crunchbase. They have no say in our…
These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year
A single midsize seed round doesn’t reveal much about what’s trending as the hot emerging area for…
Battery Storage Startup Antora Closes $550M Series C In One Of Year’s Largest Cleantech Rounds
Antora Energy, a company that provides energy through thermal batteries to data centers, announced Thursday…
Founder Traits And One Big AI Test: How Former NEA Partner Vanessa Larco Picks Winners
In early 2025, Vanessa Larco teamed up with Mercedes Bent to found Premise VC, a firm focused on backing…
The Sweet Science: Why The AI Era Belongs To Middleweights
By Brad Bernstein Think of the most famous boxers you know, likely the heavyweights: Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis,…
Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Enterprise AI startup Freehand has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to scale its autonomous AI…
Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has…
AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Seed funding trends tell us a lot about how savvy investors see the future unfolding. And lately, the data…
Schneider Electric’s VC Arm: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle
This is an ongoing series on investors focused on rebuilding the physical layer. Previous interviews in the…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus…
General Catalyst Takes The Lead Over Y Combinator In Backing $5M+ Fintech Deals
For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to…
The Biggest AI Talent Challenge Is Resilience, Not Speed
By Sumeet Vaidya Frontier labs and hyperscalers promise world-shifting innovation. And most deliver it.…
The Rise And Rise Of Billion-Dollar-Plus Rounds
Startup funding used to be associated with smallish bets on promising founders. But times change. While…
Is On-Prem Making A Comeback?
A PBX vendor recently told me something I did not expect to hear: customers are asking for on-premise systems…
Led By DeepSeek, 10 Frontier Labs Rush Onto The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In June
A total of 34 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June, altogether adding more than $110 billion…
This Time Is Different: Why AI Is Unlike Any Wave I Have Seen In 40 Years Of Financial Services
By Nigel Morris I have spent more than 40 years in financial services, and I have learned to be skeptical of…
Closing The Series A Gap Is The Next Great Opportunity For Black Founders In The AI Era
By James Norman and Sean Green In 2026, conversations about Black founders and venture capital have focused…
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
Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, began his career as a technologist. He holds…
Mexico Extends Its Venture Lead Over Brazil As More Global VCs Enter Latin America
For the third quarter in the past year, Mexico-based companies raised more venture capital in Q2 than their…