Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Of course, it was led by two well-known AI startups — including xAI , which had its second massive haul of cash in just six months. xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a funding round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 2, 2024

Wonder ’s big $700 million raise may have captured most people’s attention last month, but the story when it came for large deals was really biotech. Mirador Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: It was a huge month for big biotech raises and this was the biggest. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Suggestions like “listen to your customers” and “make data-driven decisions” are so general, they’re hard to implement. “While excessive or unhelpful customer data can clog content pipelines, the right information can power hyper-personalization at scale,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

We featured generative AI companies five years before the popular investors took notice and climate tech 2.0 It’s a big new data rush. Clean tech – Tied in with the biotech trend, we’re seeing a continued surge in input/output companies that process waste to produce byproducts like energy and potable water.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Stability AI , the venture-backed startup behind the text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion, is funding a wide-ranging effort to apply AI to the frontiers of biotech. Diffusion models — which underpin image generators like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 — create new data (e.g.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. They had ChatGPT write the script, and other gen AI tools to create a digital person who reads the script, a scalable process with at least one measurable benefit: speed. And software code is a language.”

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 4, 2024

Not surprisingly AI led the way — as it always seems to do — with a trio of a billion-or-more rounds. xAI , $6B, artificial intelligence: Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , officially announced its long-awaited fundraise — making it the second-most-valuable generative AI company in the world behind only competitor OpenAI.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Biotech and AI had another strong week, as the sectors saw two big nine-figure rounds each — including one for $370 million in biotech. Candid Therapeutics , $370M, biotech: Every week there’s a big biotech raise — and this week there’s one that’s really big. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 28, 2024

Formation Bio , $372M, biotech: Every week there is a big biotech raise and this week’s is really big. Formation Bio, an AI-enhanced pharma company, raised a $372 million Series D led by a16z. More and more biotech startups are using AI to help with their drug processes and investors are clearly taking note.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 2, 2024

April also saw a half-dozen rounds of a quarter-billion dollars or more, including a $1 billion round for an AI-enhanced biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round in April was really big. Data security startup Cyera raised a $300 million Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4 Let’s take a look.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 19, 2024

Eight startups raised $100 million or more this week as a biotech and financial services company led the way. Yep, no huge AI raise. With the new rounds, global venture dollars in defense tech this year has now passed $1 billion, per Crunchbase data. Scorpion Therapeutics , $150M, biotech: Yet another big biotech round.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Key Takeaways from BioTechX 2024: A Shift Towards Realism and Practical Applications Capgemini Nov 6, 2024 Facebook Linkedin The BioTechX event in Basel in October was a major gathering for biotech and pharma professionals. Last year, we were all about the potential of large language models and generative AI.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 19, 2024

Metsera , $290M, biotech: This week was a slower week than normal for biotech — as it was for most sectors — but that didn’t stop New York-based Metsera. Rivos , $250M, semiconductor: Semiconductor startups are seeing big money, in part thanks to the explosion in generative AI.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 16, 2024

The firm has also been one of the more active multistage venture investors since the second half of 2022 when venture funding slowed, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. Andreessen co-led the Series B in AI voice software developer ElevenLabs with angel investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. dollars unless otherwise noted.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 24, 2024

Nevertheless, the week saw a $1 billion round go to yet another AI startup, and biotech and blockchain also saw some big deals. Scale AI , $1B, artificial intelligence: This week was like many — one topped with a big AI round. based AI startup this month, after CoreWeave raised a whopping $1.1

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Crunchbase News

MAY 31, 2024

xAI , $6B, artificial intelligence: Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI, officially announced its long-awaited fundraise — making it the second-most-valuable generative AI company in the world behind only competitor OpenAI. Grok is trained off data from another Musk-owned company, X, formerly Twitter.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 7, 2024

Pika is part of a growing group of startups building text-to-video AI software. tied) Prolific Machines , $55M, biotech: Unlike in previous weeks, there was no huge biotech round. The startup plays at a unique intersection of healthcare/biotech, AI and 3D technology.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The new round is bigger than the $6 billion round Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , officially announced in May — which was the largest round raised this year. Kailera Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: Biotech was even bigger this week than normal. Poolside has raised $626 million since being founded in May 2023.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 29, 2024

While there were no huge rounds like last week, money was again spread around from AI to biotech to marketing and more. Celestial AI , $175M, semiconductors: Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a massive $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Global venture capital funding reached just over $22 billion in April 2024 — flat month over month and up a few percentage points year over year — Crunchbase data shows. The slowdown in venture funding has continued despite the AI technology wave that has washed over startups in the past few years. AI companies raised $3.9

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Crunchbase News

JULY 2, 2024

Formation Bio , $372M, biotech: Formation Bio, an AI-enhanced pharma company, raised a $372 million Series D led by a16z. More and more biotech startups are using AI to help with their drug processes and investors are clearly taking note. Founded in 2011, the company has raised $1.4 billion, per Crunchbase.

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Crunchbase News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Investors certainly put their money everywhere, from biotech to productivity tools, but they didn’t shell out a lot. Grafana’s open-source software platform helps monitor and visualize data. Founded in 2014, the company has now raised more than $805 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Energy and data centers seem to be on everyone’s mind right now — and this week’s list bears that out. Lightmatter , $400M, data centers: Lightmatter, a startup that uses light to link chips together and to do calculations for the deep learning necessary for AI, locked up a $400 million Series D led by new investor T.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

You had to raise more than $150 million to make the top 10 list this month — as investors put money into everything from defense tech to semiconductors to biotech. billion in 2024, per Crunchbase data. Groq , $640M, semiconductor: AI semiconductor and software startup Groq locked up a $640 million Series D round at a valuation of $2.8

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 8, 2024

While we saw enthusiasm for hot sectors like generative AI, it was tempered by pullbacks in areas ranging from fintech to consumer products. In addition to AI, cleantech, biotech and next-generation manufacturing were among the areas where startups scored outsized rounds. Data reported is as of Jan.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That included more than $200 million for a security company and lots of big biotech raises. Founded in 1991, the Fortnite creator has raised nearly $8 billion to date, according to Crunchbase data. NinjaOne , $232M, security : NinjaOne showed this week that not all big funding rounds go to generative AI companies.

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Crunchbase News

JULY 11, 2024

Last quarter was a great quarter if you were a founder of an AI-related startup looking for funding — maybe. billion in 1,001 deals, per Crunchbase data. billion go to AI startups — a 24% increase from the $28.7 Such startups saw more money in 2Q than they ever have before, raising a whopping $24.2 billion in H1 last year.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It seems every time a large generative AI company raises billions of dollars, one of the Big Tech pillars such as Nvidia , Microsoft or Google is leading the round. However, a look at Crunchbase data shows something surprising — corporate venture investments were actually down throughout the past two years.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

There was a time when raising over a billion dollars as an AI startup was enough to warrant a little name recognition. Per Crunchbase data , there were at least 23 private, AI-focused startups* funded in the past couple years that have raised over $1 billion in equity financing to date. Not anymore.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 27, 2024

Then just this week, the AI giant bought video collaboration startup Multi , previously Remotion, in what was reportedly an acqui-hire. Overall, M&A has picked up slightly involving startups, per Crunchbase data. MEandMine , a developer of AI-flagging to identify psychological risks in young children, raised $4.5

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 6, 2024

billion — was invested in companies with at least one female founder, Crunchbase data shows. The uptick in the portion of startup investment going to female-founded companies — up from 15% in 2022 — was in large part due to a number of billion-dollar-plus rounds raised by AI companies with a female co-founder.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 5, 2024

Founded in 1991, the Fortnite creator has raised nearly $8 billion to date, according to Crunchbase data. The round marks the largest by an AI startup this year, per Crunchbase data. Freenome , $254M, biotech: This is just one of many big biotech raises this month. billion valuation.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Converge Bio, a generative AI platform for accelerated drug discovery and development, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $5.5 million in Seed funding, led by TLV Partners. in Seed funding to speed up drug discovery and development with GenAI appeared first on OODAloop.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here at Crunchbase News, we have our own future-telling tool: Seed-funding data. It wasn’t surprising, for instance, to see that generative AI has been a popular area for seed investors. AI-enabled healthcare There’s a lot of funding for nascent companies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

billion, per Crunchbase data. Kore.ai , $150M, artificial intelligence: Of course there’s a big round for a generative AI startup. AI enterprise conversational platform Kore.ai Big global deals While Generate and Recurrent topped all rounds worldwide, there was a big round abroad. billion in October 2022.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For a time — especially in the middle of the year — it seemed like nine-figure rounds were being thrown out by investors every week to the latest and greatest AI startup. Per Crunchbase data , there were eight deals of at least a half-billion dollars or more consummated this year involving AI startups. billion in June.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 8, 2024

billion in Q1 of 2024, per Crunchbase data. Per Crunchbase data, investors participated in 2,435 known rounds at all stages in the course of the quarter. Altogether, $19 billion went into late-stage and technology growth rounds in North America in Q1, per Crunchbase data. billion — surpassing the prior two quarters.

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