As the flow of venture capital to artificial intelligence and machine learning startups leaped by 72% in 2025, a notable milestone was reached: For the first time, more VC dollars went to such ...

After receiving “substantial inbound investor interest,” AI-powered robotics company Apptronik says it raised $520 million in an extension of its $415 million Series A in February 2025, bringing the ...

Runway AI Inc. has clinched a new round of funding that vaults its valuation to $5.3 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal, as investors bet on increasingly lifelike artificial ...

Meridian, an agentic artificial intelligence startup trying to reinvent complex financial modeling, has the money it needs to complete that mission after raising $17 million in seed funding today. The ...

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In recent quarters, California’s dominance in startup funding has grown even more pronounced, pulling in 63% of all U.S. startup funding at seed through growth stage in 2025, per Crunchbase data.

When launching my first business, it quickly became apparent that decisions about funding and when to raise capital (if you do) are among the most critical decisions a founder can make. A poorly ...

Austin-area startups pulled in billions of dollars in venture capital in 2025, making it the region's strongest funding environment since 2021. Several Austin-area startups announced nine-figure and ...

The promise of AI dominated the last quarter of 2025. Investors were eager to claim stakes in both brand-new startups and more established companies developing AI-specific hardware, primarily for data ...

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