For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5...
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Engineering leaders should build highly adaptable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure instead of relying on expensive, unpredictable proprietary...
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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...
While 2026 has shown encouraging signs, with Black-founded startups raising approximately $643 million by late May, the strongest quarter since mid...
In this interview with ÂÜÀòÊÓƵ News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he...
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Mexico’s startups led the LatAm pack in Q2 — by a wide margin. The country’s startups raised $944 million in the second quarter, up 131% compared to...
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion...
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We put together a snapshot of recent startup funding tallies and trends for World Cup finalists Spain and Argentina. While neither accounts for a...
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Despite attention-grabbing AI mega-seed rounds, historical data shows that very large first financings rarely produce venture-scale returns because...
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Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per ÂÜÀòÊÓƵ data. Led by China's $7.4 billion...
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, ÂÜÀòÊÓƵ data shows, a...
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