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Amid fierce competition for an edge in the AI race, well-funded startups commonly find it’s simply faster to buy another company than try to build out certain technologies themselves.
Health, Wellness & Biotech
This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or...
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So far this year, 250 companies have joined the unicorn ranks through Aug. 15, up from 2025's 193 companies. Leading sectors included robotics, AI...
Databricks is back raising another $5 billion, after it raised that amount just eight months ago. The largest fundings this week also went to an AI...
The sectors leading the herd to the ÂÜÀòÊÓƵ in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and...
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Venture investors seem to be more upbeat than they have been in years about the future of fitness and wellness. Startup investment in those...
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more...
We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by...
Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI...
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So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per ÂÜÀòÊÓƵ data, with...
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