In an interview with ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï News, Van Espahbodi, general parter at Generational Partners, discusses how AI is changing hardware economics, why software investors are rushing into industrial technology, and what he believes many of them...
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We ranked August’s most active startup investors across several categories, including lead backers, prolific venture dealmakers, highest spenders and...
It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding, with four companies each raising $1 billion or more. The Boring Co. led with a $3 billion Series D...
A total of 29 companies joined The ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï in August, adding around $63 billion in value to the board. More than a third of the...
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Venture investors poured $42 billion into just over 1,500 startups worldwide in August, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï data shows, down 25% from July’s $56 billion but...
In the first half of this year, 58 venture-backed companies joined the public listings at $1 billion or above, per ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï data. With the year’s...
Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more...
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Tapestry VC has closed an $80 million third fund to double down on Europe’s repeat founders and expects the coming wave of AI exits to produce yet...
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Globally, robotics startups have so far raised $18.8 billion in 2026, compared to $15 billion in the full year of 2025. The figure also handily...
In the decade-plus since Playground Global's founding, it has built its investment thesis around the idea that breakthroughs in science and...
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