Joanna Glasner

1 day ago | news.crunchbase.com | Joanna Glasner

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 last week’s biggest funding rounds here. It may feel like the doldrums of summer, but this past week was nonetheless a pretty action-packed one for big funding rounds.

1 day ago | news.crunchbase.com | Joanna Glasner

This is not shaping up as a strong year for gaming startup funding. Per Crunchbase data, only around $627 million in global venture funding has gone to companies in gaming-related industry categories so far in 2025. That puts the industry on track for its worst annual funding total in years, as charted below. Investment has also been trending lower the past few quarters. With Q2 winding to a close, it looks like it’s the weakest quarter in years for gaming investment.

2 days ago | news.crunchbase.com | Joanna Glasner

Sleeping may not seem like one of our more productive pursuits. But in reality, people who sleep well tend to be happier, more successful at school and work, and more likely to have fulfilling social lives. Those are the takeaways from this year’s National Sleep Foundation survey of American adults, which found that people with poor sleep health are 4x more likely to be unhappy. That’s a troubling result considering the survey also found that more than half of adults don’t get enough sleep.

5 days ago | news.crunchbase.com | Joanna Glasner

If you were to imagine the kind of startup likely to snag the largest seed round of all time, it would probably look something like Thinking Machines Lab. Launched and led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, and joined by AI heavy hitters from Meta, OpenAI, Google and Mistral AI, the San Francisco company certainly has a founding team that investors ought to like. And given prevailing valuations for  leading AI unicorns, a $2 billion seed deal doesn’t even sound that big in context.

1 week ago | news.crunchbase.com | Joanna Glasner

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 it warranted its own dedicated piece. Unsurprisingly, it is about AI. More specifically, Crunchbase data shows a continued boom this year in seed-stage funding to startups working on autonomous AI agents, assistants and companions, with a particular focus on enterprise customers.