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Crunchbase Data: The AI Boom Has Drastically Changed Who's Funding The Hottest Companies In 2025 Vs. 2021
As global venture funding in 2025 ratcheted up to the third-highest total on record after the peak years of 2021 and 2022, capital also concentrated further, with the number of companies raising rounds of $50 million or more drastically shrinking…
A top options firm is hiring traders to bet on the weather and other 'event-driven outcomes
Prediction markets are booming, and the hype is spreading beyond the retail crowd to major trading firms. Options-trading giant Susquehanna International Group is seeking to expand into the booming market where traders can bet on everything from…
Trump administration backs Kalshi, Polymarket as states move to ban prediction markets
The Trump administration is throwing its support behind the prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket in a critical legal battle between the growing prediction market industry and states that wish to ban these platforms. The move by Michael…
Innovation Is A Game Of Two Halves
Somewhere in the past 25 years, we began to confuse two things that are not the same. We started treating “innovation” as something that only happens in private markets, and “funding innovation” as a synonym for venture…
Rock Health Founder Pens Playbook for Healthcare Entrepreneurs
In 2010, as the tech world buzzed over apps and games, Halle Tecco was looking elsewhere. Technologists, she believed, should train their attention on healthcare, a giant industry sorely in need of refreshing, yet stiffly resistant. That year, she…
Exclusive: Badge raises $17 million to chase the next era of digital wallets
Wallets have always been wherever money is. In antiquity, it was leather pouches for coins. In the Renaissance, it was folding pocketbooks that developed alongside the rise of paper currency. And now, with smartphones, it's something else…
What's behind a big jump in January property tech funding
Property tech and adjacent companies raised approximately $1.7 billion globally last month, according to the Center for Real Estate Technology and Innovation. The average dollar amount per deal rose to about $34 million. Brendan Wallace, co-founder…
Dueling PACs take center stage in midterm elections over AI regulation
A pro-regulation AI PAC is launching a six-figure ad buy supporting a candidate in a competitive New York congressional primary. The lawmaker, Alex Bores, was targeted last year by a different AI PAC, Leading the Future, which opposes more…
SAVCA appoints new CEO
Anusha Naidu, new CEO of SAVCA. The SA Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) has appointed Anusha Naidu as its new chief executive officer, effective 1 March. Naidu joins SAVCA from her role as corporate finance and ESG executive…
Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India's AI startup ecosystem
Nvidia is stepping up efforts to court India's artificial intelligence startups earlier in their lifecycle, unveiling a string of partnerships this week aimed at reaching founders even before their companies are formally established. The push is…
OpenAI aims to secure $100 Billion in latest funding round, reportedly aiming for an $800 billion valuation - Parties offering up cash include Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank, and more
OpenAI may be on the cusp of securing a new stockpile of cash to burn through, with the business looking to secure $100 billion in funding from a range of tech and investment firms, Bloomberg reports. The company is reportedly seeking a valuation…
LanzaJet gets $47m for SAF, Ownwell's $30m round and Advent sells two fintechs
• LanzaJet, a Deerfield, Ill.-based sustainable aviation fuel maker, raised $47m in the first close of a round at a $650m pre-money valuation, co-led by IAG and Shell, with participation from Groupe ADP, LanzaTech, and Mitsui. Go deeper…
How 'Hidden Entrepreneurs' Are Revolutionizing Real Estate
While we often celebrate the entrepreneurs building the tools, there is an equally vital group of innovators we often overlook: the “hidden entrepreneurs.” Hidden entrepreneurs are the ones already standing on the front lines of every…
6 in 10 People Regret Their Careers - and This Legendary Investor Spent a Decade Finding the Fix
You could say that Bill Gurley is pretty good at what he does. The legendary venture capitalist and general partner at Benchmark has a track record of investing and serving on the boards of now-iconic companies like Uber, Zillow, OpenTable, and…
CNBC's Inside India newsletter: India is throwing its weight behind AI - but is there substance behind the headlines?
It's a question as to how far U.S. tech giants will go to support India's belated AI push. India faces numerous challenges to its goal of advancing native AI research. New Delhi, however, is pushing ahead to become a 'significant player in the…
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