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Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce
Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, but e-commerce is more fragmented than ever. With brands selling on so many platforms — from TikTok Shop, to established…
Peering into the ‘Series A chasm’ with Everywhere Ventures’ Jenny Fielding
It’s no secret that the bar for startups to land a Series A has risen, but has it risen too high? According to Jenny Fielding,…
Traditionally, cloud-based workstations have aimed to provide virtual machines that users can access from anywhere and also run apps around the clock. Berlin-based company Deta is trying to flip the…
Prompt engineering startup Vellum.ai raises $5M as demand for generative AI services scales
The startup helps companies improve their generative AI prompting, and this quick fundraise indicates there’s room for more of its ilk.
As expected, it appears a good mix of investors wrote checks at the rate they’d aimed for, while others fell a bit short.
Trading-focused blockchain Sei raises $30M, bringing valuation up to $800M
Sei, a layer-1 blockchain focused on trading, has raised $30 million, Jayendra Jog, co-founder of Sei Labs, exclusively told TechCrunch. A company spokesperson shared an $800 million valuation for the…
Fantasy sports app Champions Round raises $7M to build new content creator feature
Champions Round, a fantasy league startup that caters to Gen Z sports fans, announced today that it raised $7 million in new Series A funding. The funding round will go…
Startups hoping to raise a nine-figure round in the future had best temper their ambition; venture funding events worth $100 million or more are going extinct — quickly.
We’re gearing up for a wave of venture capital data that will start to drop in less than two weeks’ time. Here’s what we want to determine when we get…
3 views: The new decentralized venture landscape is changing how we report startup data
Where is Silicon Valley, really?
Niantic raises $300M at a $9B valuation to build the ‘real-world metaverse’
Niantic, the augmented reality platform that’s developing games like Pokémon GO, raised $300 million from Coatue, valuing the company at $9 billion. The San Fransisco-based startup, which initially spun out…
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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal
Canadian travel startup Hopper has raised a $170 million Series F round, led by Capital One. The U.S. banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. This…
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Hoxton Ventures’ partners assess Europe’s early-stage landscape
“We’re largely hands off with our companies, but I think almost all the founders we pick tend to do the right thing and have a broader perspective on society.”
Let’s say you randomly selected 1,000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A? Of companies that go on…
You don’t have to look hard to see why the startup community in Latin America has long faced a lack of capital and resources to fuel significant growth. Many Latin…
Talking about down rounds in a bull market feels like shopping for an umbrella in this unprecedented California drought. You get some funny looks, but it pays to be prepared.…
Here’s One Way To Monetise The Series A Crunch: Make A List Of Moribund Startups, Sell It For $5k (As Acqui-Hire/IP ‘Intel’), Profit
Back in December, the sort-of-Series-A-crunch led VC analysis firm CB Insights to predict that more than 1,000 startups will be orphaned at the seed stage. But it seems there is…
