Of the nearly 1,600 companies on The ½ûÂþÌìÌà Unicorn Board, a small but ultra-elite club of private companies valued at $5 billion or more is growing across multiple metrics, an analysis of the data shows. We take a look at them, their valuations...
Seed funding
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Active Capital, a San Antonio-based solo GP venture firm, has closed on its third fund — a $28 million vehicle aimed at investing in enterprise AI...
Earlier this week, we wrote about investment trends popping up at seed stage. However, we left out one area where funding activity was so voluminous...
After plowing through a huge pile of seed funding rounds, we identified four areas where seed is trending this year: longevity, defense, waste...
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Since 2023, 259 new unicorns have joined The ½ûÂþÌìÌà Unicorn Board, adding $605 billion in total value and altogether raising $130 billion...
Reviewing old seed funding data is a lot like going into the past to see what people thought the future would look like. Going back roughly 10 years...
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Global venture funding totaled $23 billion in April 2025, flat year over year and down significantly month over month from $68 billion invested in...
After the pre-seed round is a time for a startup to plan for securing follow-on investments, says guest author Sergei Bogdanov, who shares early...
The busiest venture backers upped their game in the recently ended first quarter. Among the 14 most-active post-seed investors, a majority backed...
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Europe’s venture funding plateaued at $12.6 billion in Q1 2025 — flat quarter over quarter and year over year, ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows. Without the...
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Latin America startup investment declined sequentially in the first quarter of this year, driven by a drop in later-stage dealmaking. Even so...
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