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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI For Everything From Recycling To Breathing To Winning Construction Bids

A monthly Crunchbase roundup of five lesser-known AI funding deals: Greyparrot's Series B, Emesent's equity-plus-debt package, SoundHealth's Series A, Forge Industries' round and Cascade's seed raise.

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Eight Sleep Raises $50M At $1.5B Valuation To Expand Into 'Predictive, AI-Driven Health'

Sleep tech firm Eight Sleep has secured a $50 million strategic round led by Tether Investments at a $1.5 billion valuation, its second raise in a year, funding an expansion into preventative health tools.

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Crunchbase Predicts: 15 Companies That Could Go Public In 2026 As The IPO Market Gains Momentum

Crunchbase's 2026 forecast lists fifteen late-stage companies it deems probable or very likely IPO candidates, profiling each with past raises, valuations and secondary sales; Australia's Canva makes the list.

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In The Space Of Months, AI Funding Boom Adds More Than $500B In Value To Unicorn Board And Reshuffles Top 20

Crunchbase's unicorn tracker analysis finds AI-driven valuations added over half a trillion dollars in months, reshuffling the top twenty and minting eleven new decacorns in H2 2025, including Figure, Kraken, Mistral and Sierra.

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Atlassian Aims For AI Browser For Knowledge Workers With $610M Acquisition Of Startup Behind Dia

Atlassian has agreed to buy The Browser Company, maker of browsers Dia and Arc, for roughly $610 million, aiming to build an AI browser for workplace use.

The IPO Market Is Opening Up. These 14 Companies Could Be Next.

Crunchbase News profiles 14 venture-backed companies its predictive models flag as likely IPO candidates, from Stripe to Sierra Space, recapping their funding histories, valuations and financial milestones.

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Travel Funding Holds Strong As Etraveli Said To Reach $3.1B Valuation

Roundup of travel-sector dealmaking: KKR invests in Etraveli at a reported $3.1 billion valuation, Airalo, TravelPerk and Klook raise big rounds, and SevenRooms and MadeComfy are acquired.

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These Are The Fintech IPOs That Could Follow Klarna’s Debut

Crunchbase curates twelve fintech startups it considers likeliest to go public after Klarna's planned offering, covering their funding histories, Stripe's employee share sale, and MoonPay's recent purchase of Iron.

Semiconductor Startup Funding Looks To Bounce Back After Lackluster 2023

Crunchbase's analysis finds venture funding for chip startups rebounding in 2024 on AI demand, recapping large recent deals at Black Semiconductor, Tenstorrent, PsiQuantum, Celestial AI, Recogni and Eliyan, plus Astera Labs' IPO.

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Hydrogen Energy Is Getting A Heavy Infusion Of VC Funding

Crunchbase News surveys the recent surge in venture funding for hydrogen startups, profiling 13 companies — among them Hysata, Koloma, Electric Hydrogen, HysetCo, Tree Energy Solutions and ZeroAvia — and their latest rounds.

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AI, Web3 And E-Commerce Led For New Unicorns In April 2024

Eleven companies reached billion-dollar valuations in April 2024, led by Xaira Therapeutics' $1 billion Series A; Rubrik and Ibotta listed on the NYSE, and several existing unicorns raised at higher valuations.

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Crypto Dominates And The First Unicorn From Uzbekistan Joins The Board In March 2024

Eleven companies reached billion-dollar private valuations in March 2024, three from crypto; the roundup lists each newcomer's raise, lead backer and worth, with Sydney's Deputy the only Australian.

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Startups Still See A Future In Familiar Foods Made With Weird Ingredients

Roundup of venture-funded startups reengineering everyday foods with unusual ingredients, detailing recent raises by Onego Bio, Planet A Foods, Savor, Perfect Day, Ripple Foods and Sydney-based Eden Brew.

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed This Year

Year-end Crunchbase column recapping five distinctive 2023 raises: Cortical Labs, Forward, Neura Robotics, KoBold Metals and Living Carbon, with amounts, backers and one stated valuation.

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Cybersecurity Sector Leads For New Unicorns In October, With Zero From Silicon Valley

Crunchbase's October 2023 unicorn board update: nine newcomers led by two cybersecurity firms, with Sydney's Employment Hero reaching unicorn status, Shield AI revalued upward, and Convoy and Olive AI shutting down.

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From Buildings To Ocean Water, Startups Are Finding More Places To Stow Carbon

Crunchbase News surveys recently funded carbon removal startups storing CO2 in oceans, soil, underground and concrete, and notes large carbon-capture acquisitions by oil and gas buyers.

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These Are The Most Active And Spendiest Cleantech Investors

Crunchbase data analysis ranking the busiest cleantech investors, led by Lowercarbon Capital, and citing large sustainability rounds at Loam Bio, Our Next Energy, Ohmium and Palmetto Clean Technology.

Startups Get Hip To Hypnotherapy

A roundup of venture-backed hypnotherapy and hypnosis startups, covering recent funding rounds for Mindset Health, Oneleaf and BehaVR, plus BehaVR's merger with Oxford VR and Pear Therapeutics' bankruptcy.

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In April: Organic Computers, Recycling Chopsticks And Separating Waste

A monthly Crunchbase roundup of five overlooked venture rounds, including raises by ChopValue, Australia's Cortical Labs, Harvey, Sepura Home and Ebb Carbon, with lead investors and amounts for each deal.

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Pooptech Startups Are Passing The Smell Test

A survey of waste-management startups covering livestock and human waste ventures, their cumulative funding, Rumin8's January round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and accelerator and corporate partnerships in the sector.

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Special Series Part 2: Billions Of Dollars Roll Into AI-Enhanced Cybersecurity

Analysis of venture investment in AI-powered cybersecurity, citing large 2022 rounds for Salt Security, Velas and SparkCognition, SentinelOne's acquisition of Attivo Networks, and investors' views on the technology's limits.

Even Before Figma Deal, Design Startup Funding Looked Good

Roundup of design-sector startup funding covering recent raises by Picsart, LottieFiles, Gravity Sketch and Superside, plus Canva's standing, alongside Adobe's agreed multibillion-dollar purchase of Figma.

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Special Series Part 1: These Future Of Work Startups Won Big

A roundup of seven late-stage future-of-work companies whose recent raises came with sharp valuation increases, spanning payroll, learning, compensation and talent, with details of each company's earlier rounds and lead investors.

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Connected Fitness Could Rise Again. I'll Be Watching From The Couch

A roundup of connected fitness startup funding, listing 2022 raises by Future, Vitruvian, OxeFit, Hydrow and Aviron, while contrasting them with larger 2021 rounds by Tonal, Tempo and Whoop.

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Worker Training Platform Go1 Raises $100M At $2B+ Valuation

Australian workforce training platform Go1 announced a funding round of over $100 million, lifting its valuation past $2 billion, and had recently acquired French e-learning provider Coorpacademy.

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The Unicorn Report: Fewer Startups Stampeded Into The Billion-Dollar Club In March

Crunchbase's monthly tracker shows 34 firms newly valued at $1 billion-plus in March 2022, fewer than prior months; Australians Linktree and Immutable joined, Getir and Blockchain.com became decacorns, and Fair and Blinkit were acquired.

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More Early-Stage Funding Flows To Climate Fintech And Finance

A roundup of recent venture deals for startups combining climate and finance, led by Watershed's $70 million Series B, plus raises by Xpansiv, Persefoni and Patch Technologies.

Zip To Buy Sezzle As Pressures Weigh On BNPL Sector

Zip announced plans to acquire BNPL rival Sezzle for roughly $352 million amid sector slowdown, consolidation and regulatory scrutiny, following Block's completed Afterpay purchase and other buy-now-pay-later deals, while Zip reported a recent loss.

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The Briefing: Jobandtalent Picks Up $575M, CyCognito Raises $100M, And More

Daily briefing reporting Jobandtalent's equity-and-debt raise, CyCognito's Series C, harrison.ai's and Klue's Series B rounds, plus NetBase Quid's completed purchase of Rival IQ.

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The Briefing: Partech Raises $750M Fund, CloudTrucks Closes $115M Series B, And More

Daily venture briefing: Partech closes a $750M growth fund, CloudTrucks and Fundbox raise large late-stage rounds, Q-CTRL lands $25M, and Nubank's parent cuts its IPO price range.

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