Venture Capital: Latest News and Analysis

Swift Ventures launches an index of public companies truly investing in AI, showing 37% annual growth and outperforming the Nasdaq and S&P.

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Fertility startup Kindbody is considering selling itself after a funding round fell through earlier this year, and it’s seeking to raise $10 million to sustain operations in the interim, according to ...

Element451 Inc., a startup that develops software for higher education institutions, today disclosed that it has raised $175 million in funding. The capital was provided by growth equity firm PSG.

FireDome emerged from stealth Tuesday to combat wildfires with technology that is designed after a missile defense system.

Alfred Lin, the co-head of Sequoia’s venture business, leans on colleagues and the founders he’s backed to continue growing and learning.

GV, Google’s venture capital spinoff that started in 2008, has invested billions of dollars in companies from Uber and Nothing to scent digitizing startup Osmo. Their CEO David Krane joined our ...

Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $6 billion in new capital, according to a regulatory filing, wrapping up a funding round that has been in the works for months and was said to value the artificial ...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it has raised around $6 billion in equity financing as it races to compete with other AI firms.

RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, and Trump's other Health Department picks would make decisions about billions of dollars of funding for biotech and healthcare companies.

Threat detection startup Tuskira today launched with an announcement that it has raised $28.5 million in funding to accelerate product innovation, expand integrations and refine its artificial ...

Software startup ServiceTitan is seeking a valuation of up to $5.16 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, it said on Tuesday, in what could be one of the final few flotations of the year that ...

Confirming earlier reports, cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today said it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding at a $900 million valuation, or roughly triple that of a him $50 ...

It’s hardly a secret that the crypto industry is counting on the incoming Trump administration to end the Biden administration’s campaign of regulatory enforcement actions. And who knows? Perhaps a ...

Home service software business ServiceTitan Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $501.6 million in an initial public offering, in what could be the last major US listing of 2024.

The Glendale, California-based company said it plans to raise up to $502 million by offering 8.8 million shares priced between $52 and $57 each. ServiceTitan will join a handful of venture ...

On the surface, this year has lacked headline-grabbing milestones for women in leadership. The share of women in Congress and running Fortune 500 companies mostly stalled after years of steady gains.

Photonics -- a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data -- has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing ...

Indoor climbing is a tricky sport to track. That’s why Spanish startup Lizcore caught TechCrunch’s eye at MWC earlier this year. The team of two co-founders — led by CEO Edgar Casanovas Lorente, a ...

A domain name says a lot about a brand when you're starting out—here's how to choose a name that will appeal to VCs.

Neil Shen’s HongShan has struggled to invest its $9bn cash pile in a weak domestic market and tough US controls ...

India has bucked the global trend in initial public offerings this year, establishing itself as a rare bright spot for tech listings while other major More than 20 Indian startups, including Urban ...

Databricks is raising at least $5 billion in cash — though it could raise as much as $8 billion — pegging its new valuation at $55 billion, sources say.

A new artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former Google LLC, Stripe Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. executives named /dev/agents today announced it has raised $56 million in seed funding to ...

A lithium technology startup backed by Rio Tinto expects to finalise a funding round in the next week to raise A$29 million ($19 million), even as the global lithium market struggles, its ...

A new crypto firm is joining the venture race as the blockchain industry roars back. On Thursday, a firm called Metalayer filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that describes ...

When Kevin Ryan went out to raise money for DoubleClick in 1996, every California venture capital firm he spoke with told him they would love to invest—if he moved to San Francisco. He couldn’t bring ...

Cybersecurity startup Halcyon Tech Inc. is the industry’s latest unicorn, reaching $1 billion valuation in a deal to raise $100 million as it aims to combat the rise of ransomware attacks. The ...

Tempest Inc., a startup that helps developers manage technical resources such as databases, launched today with $3.2 million in seed funding. Abstract Ventures led the round. It was joined by Box ...

Funding volume in 2024 is up compared to 2023 and investors are excited about the quality of companies looking to raise in LatAm.

Voice artificial intelligence startup PlayHT Inc., which likes to be known simply as PlayAI, said today it has raised $21 million in a seed round of funding.

Sweden’s Northvolt was once a darling of the battery industry and Europe’s best hope for competing with China’s dominant battery makers.

Michael Gilroy, a former head of fintech investments at Coatue, and Gokul Rajaram, a longtime tech executive and prolific angel investor, are forming a yet-to-be-named venture firm and plan to begin ...

MatX Inc., a chip startup led by former Google LLC engineers, has reportedly raised $80 million in fresh funding.

Wiz said it plans to extend its cloud and AI security platform with the acquisition of cloud remediation startup Dazz.

Defense tech startups have raised almost $3 billion so far in 2024, surpassing the previous record from 2022 of $2.6 billion.

The artificial intelligence startup has told investors it raised $5 billion in latest funding round.