Chris Metinko

1 week ago | news.crunchbase.com | Chris Metinko

Dealmaking involving VC-backed startups jumped 26% year to year in Q1, but stayed pretty steady from the final quarter of 2024 even as many hoped for a significant increase. Crunchbase data shows there were 550 M&A deals involving venture-backed startups in the first quarter of 2025. That number is well ahead of the 435 deals completed in Q1 last year, but actually a slight tick below the 563 deals done in Q4.

1 week ago | news.crunchbase.com | Chris Metinko

After successive quarters of decline, venture funding to cybersecurity startups nudged up in the first quarter — and could see even more investment after having the largest acquisition of a private, venture-backed company ever. Total funding to VC-backed cybersecurity startups topped $2.7 billion in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 29% increase from the last quarter of 2024, and just a slight dip from the $2.8 billion raised in the same quarter last year.

1 week ago | news.crunchbase.com | Chris Metinko

Even as liquidity from exits remains stalled, it hasn’t stopped some firms from raising massive new growth funds. The most recent example is Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, which has closed a $4.6 billion late-stage venture fund, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The new fund, Founders Fund Growth III, had been reported back in December as being about $3 billion.

2 weeks ago | news.crunchbase.com | Chris Metinko

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last week here. Although there were a handful of nine-figure rounds this week, funding news, in general, seemed quiet.

2 weeks ago | news.crunchbase.com | Chris Metinko

Nuro, a developer of autonomous driving technology and software, raised $106 million in an ongoing Series E that values the company at $6 billion. The new deal would represent a cut from the reported $8.6 billion it was valued at in 2021 after raising a $600 million Series D led by Tiger Global Management.