Startups across sales, marketing and customer management have raised $7.5 billion so far this year, according to ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï data. The largest rounds span everything from advertising and customer data to sales software, e-commerce and customer...
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The standard four-year founder vesting schedule can leave departed founders with large equity stakes, complicating financing and control, and...
In the past two years, venture investors have poured more than $7 billion into legal and legal tech startups, most with an AI focus. Funding to the...
The market for private-company shares has become a much bigger part of the startup ecosystem. In this ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï News Q&A, EquityZen co-founder Phil...
The best boards continuously evaluate selling alongside scaling, pivoting, or staying independent, especially when the company is thriving, founder...
A wave of major AI IPOs could return significant liquidity to limited partners, fueling a new venture fundraising cycle rather than simply affecting...
Payments giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have teamed up to make an offer to buy troubled PayPal in a deal valued at more...
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï data shows, a...
The wind-downs at PayPal and Fidelity International may look like a retreat, but the data points to a concentration of power at the top of the market...
In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï cleantech, EV and...
The artificial intelligence space saw two major developments last week that highlight how technology companies are trying to manage the soaring costs...


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