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The first six months of the year have seen $4.2 billion invested in robotics, putting this year well on track to beat 2023’s 12-month total of $6.8 billion.
Diversity Spotlight is a feature on Crunchbase that lets companies add tags to their profiles to label themselves.
The largest funding rounds raised by startups are becoming rarer and rarer. For upstart companies working on the future of energy, however, the market is surprisingly strong. The venture deceleration,…
How can venture capital survive a three-year liquidity drop?
We’re back to dig into Q4 2023 venture capital results and what’s coming up this year.
We’ve witnessed an incredible unicorn stampede over the last 10 years.
The last quarter in venture capital was quite gloomy. Even AI didn’t change the picture that much, but its impact is starting to show in other ways.
This week, Equity was joined by Gené Teare, a well-known analyst of the global venture capital market from Crunchbase and Crunchbase News.
Q2 failed to bring a funding reprieve for web3 startups and unicorns
The gist is that the prevailing pessimism in the air is wearing down these once-key pillars of venture volume.
Crunchbase will begin tracking venture dollars allocated to LGBTQ+ founders
It is estimated that less than 1% of all VC dollars are raised by companies with founders openly within the LGBTQ+ community.
Without the Stripe and OpenAI deals, global VC results would have been even worse in Q1 2023
The numbers aren’t great, sure, but they’re also not quite as bad as we feared heading into 2023 last year.
The thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening
There was a brief, beautiful moment for a few months in 2021 when it felt like robotic investments might be immune from broader market forces. We all fundamentally and implicitly…
Many folks building or investing in blockchain-based assets and protocols have kept their chins up amid a series of crises. But what do the numbers tell us?
Harmonic helps investors query the startup searches of their wildest dreams
Siri, show me fintech companies, founded in the last two years, that haven’t raised over the past year but have grown headcount by 100% in the same time frame; and…
Plummeting unicorn births underscore a changing venture capital market
Per Crunchbase data, the rate at which unicorns are being born has fallen nearly 80% from its peak, which was notably reached one year ago.
Grocery delivery startups with low margins might drop IPO dreams for M&A reality
Getting a bunch of bananas and avocados from your favorite 15-minute grocery delivery company at 3 a.m. might be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but some of these companies…
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Tracking cybersecurity investment during the venture downturn
Is cybersecurity venture capital deal activity holding up better than other sectors this deep into Q3?
Unicorn fundraising is reverting to a (very elevated) baseline
Provided that you have a memory longer than the average fish, there’s nothing to be so scared about. Yet.
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The venture slowdown finally hit early-stage valuations, PitchBook data shows
According to PitchBook, the median valuation of early-stage U.S. startups that raised venture capital was lower last quarter than in Q1 2022.
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Latin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength
To really understand what’s going on with Latin American venture capital funding, we have to go deeper than the regional perspective can afford us.
Thanks to Amazon, One Medical and Whole Foods are on the same dang shelf
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann…
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Robotics scene continues to be bullish, but layoffs are looming
“In an economic downturn, the customers will be less willing to be experimental, so they’re thinking about cutting costs and then economics just becomes so much more important.”
Crunchbase looks to grow its database of startups with $50M in new cash
In both down times and boom times, businesses across industries are faced with the challenge of building sales pipelines and closing revenue. “Account-based” intelligence — i.e., research into potential customers…
While venture cools down around the world, climate startups are blazing hot
Climate tech winners in the second quarter spanned a range of businesses, from renewable energy developers to EV manufacturers and nuclear startups.
If Instacart, which was able to raise aggressively during the pandemic, is actually worth a fraction of what investors calculated last year, what about other unicorns?
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VCs slow Latin American investments after blowout 2021
A report from the Latin America-focused Sling Hub platform indicates that June was a record-low result for the value of venture capital fundraising. What does that mean for the region moving forward?
As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn?
The global VC total in the second quarter was still above any quarter of 2020. It’s a massive figure, in other words, indicative of a private capital market that is…
Both startup and venture capital reached an activity zenith at some point in the last few quarters — but when?
4 negotiation points startup founders must focus on in a down market
As founders bend over backward to get backing, legal due diligence can sometimes go overlooked.
Happy Monday. It’s Independence Day here in the United States, which means that much of TechCrunch is on holiday. But as last week came to a close, several important pieces…
CIBC Innovation Banking comes in with new $1.5B venture financing to fill VC gap
CIBC’s Mark McQueen says the bank’s non-dilutive capital can be “unicorn fuel” as startups wait for VC funding spigot to flow faster.
