Gené Teare
Senior Data Editor at Crunchbase News
Deep in data @CrunchbaseNews - journalist covering venture, AI. Speaker been on NASDAQ TradeTalks, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch Equity pod @TechCrunch alumni
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1 week ago |
news.crunchbase.com | Gené Teare
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 week’s biggest funding rounds here. Energy for AI and automated defense tech led this week’s largest U.S. venture funding deals.
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1 week ago |
news.crunchbase.com | Gené Teare
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series looking at how the venture and startup landscape has evolved over the past 10 years. Read more articles about seed funding, Series B trends and the rise of megafunds over the decade. Over the past decade, Crunchbase has chronicled the rise of unicorn companies — private startups valued at $1 billion or more — as a signal of where venture capital dollars and market enthusiasm flow.
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1 week ago |
share.google | Gené Teare
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series looking at how the venture and startup landscape has evolved over the past 10 years. Read more articles about seed funding, Series B trends and the rise of megafunds over the decade. Over the past decade, Crunchbase has chronicled the rise of unicorn companies — private startups valued at $1 billion or more — as a signal of where venture capital dollars and market enthusiasm flow.
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2 weeks ago |
news.crunchbase.com | Gené Teare
Thirteen companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May 2025, including five from Europe, Crunchbase data shows. The five new unicorns from Europe mark the highest monthly count of new billion-dollar startups since 2023 for the continent. They included the first two from Germany and the first company from Portugal so far this year to be valued at $1 billion-plus. The U.K. also added two companies last month, marking three total this year.
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3 weeks ago |
news.crunchbase.com | Gené Teare
Global venture funding reached $21.8 billion in May 2025, down 13% quarter over quarter and down a third year over year, Crunchbase data shows. The U.S. continued to dominate in May, with 56% of global venture funding invested in U.S.-based companies. While funding slowed and the IPO market remained tepid, M&A activity increased. Startup acquisitions with disclosed prices totaled $24.7 billion in May, marking the second-highest monthly total since the start of 2024, Crunchbase data shows.
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