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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Almost All About AI

This week’s list of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds was pretty much all about AI. That includes the biggest financing — a $1 billion round for Instinct, a developer of AI assistants ..

05/10/26

Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up

Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far th..

06/10/26

Crunchbase Data Shows AI’s Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial Acquirers

Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a rev..

07/10/26

North America’s Startup Funding Falls In Q3 As AI Giants Eye The Public Markets

In total, investors poured $92 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian startups in the third quarter, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 35% decline from the prior qu..

07/10/26

There Was Never An Easy AI Era, And Investors Are Raising The Bar

As AI IPOs bring greater scrutiny, argues guest author Maor Farid, founder and CEO of Leo AI, investors will increasingly prioritize customer spending growth, sustainable margins and deploym..

07/10/26

From Ballet To Breach Prevention: How A Magician’s Son Raised $4.2M In Seed Funding For His Cybersecurity Startup

The latest in our series of articles on venture funding to non-tech founders features a former magician's assistant and ballet dancer who's building cybersecurity software with $4.2 million ..

07/10/26

The top 10 investors backing Europe’s fastest-growing startups and scaleups

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How to raise your Series A: what investors want to see from you

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Leatherback is now Foren. The name was the last thing to change

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Aleph Alpha and Mistral releases raise hopes for Europe’s sovereign AI ambitions

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Owkin alum raises $25m seed to build world model for human cells

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08/10/26

Bending Spoons CEO on why M&A fails

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Exclusive: Weight loss startup Yazen raises €50m led by Verdane

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7 Cambridge alumni building in stealth

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Amazon employees hit by fresh job cuts across several teams

Amazon faces new layoffs affecting seller support, engineering, and customer service amid its cost overhaul and AI investments.

08/10/26

Lime's CEO shares how he overcame a stroke to take his company to a $1.7 billion IPO

Wayne Ting, Lime's CEO, opened up about his stroke and the company's IPO at the Tech Insider: Growth Mode event.

08/10/26

Anthropic's secret weapon is its CEO's charm, one of its earliest investors says

Matt Murphy of Menlo Ventures credits Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for his unique charm. The AI startup could go public at a $2 trillion valuation.

08/10/26

Exhibits A, B, and C that Ben Affleck knows more about AI than you

Ben Affleck showed off his AI skills this week where he said he can write in Python and dished on neural networks. It wasn't the first time.

08/10/26

Jacob Coxon says this is why pacing the frontier might not work

Coxon said in an interview that he was "almost certain" Chinese spies had infiltrated US AI labs, making it difficult to keep AI advances from China.

08/10/26

Skims cofounder Emma Grede says leaders can be empathetic without treating employees like family

Emma Grede said leaders can practice radical honesty without being harsh.

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Articles

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Almost All About AI

Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up

Crunchbase Data Shows AI’s Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial Acquirers

North America’s Startup Funding Falls In Q3 As AI Giants Eye The Public Markets

There Was Never An Easy AI Era, And Investors Are Raising The Bar

From Ballet To Breach Prevention: How A Magician’s Son Raised $4.2M In Seed Funding For His Cybersecurity Startup

The top 10 investors backing Europe’s fastest-growing startups and scaleups

How to raise your Series A: what investors want to see from you

Leatherback is now Foren. The name was the last thing to change

Aleph Alpha and Mistral releases raise hopes for Europe’s sovereign AI ambitions

Owkin alum raises $25m seed to build world model for human cells