The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies developing AI inference technology, a video-creation ...

This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or recycling, to another that promises to help people ...

Crunchbase, long known as a go-to platform for company data, has relaunched as an AI-powered solution, revolutionizing how investors, founders, and innovators gain insights into private companies.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crunchbase today announced its relaunch as an AI-powered solution revolutionizing how investors, founders, and innovators think about market insights ...

Five months ago, Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell was telling me over Zoom how he had been cutting costs across the company: They had canceled the holiday party. Hiring was frozen. But no layoffs—that ...

Wellness startups pulled in $3.6B in H1 2026, but the money favors AI and data. Here is the takeaway for founders. The post ...

Crunchbase announced Thursday that it is starting to track the amount of venture capital dollars invested in founders who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. The new data source is an addition ...

In both down times and boom times, businesses across industries are faced with the challenge of building sales pipelines and closing revenue. “Account-based” intelligence — i.e., research into ...

Crunchbase will abandon its roots as a historical data provider to become an AI-powered predictions engine that forecasts startup funding rounds, acquisitions and company growth trajectories. The San ...

CEO Jager McConnell shifted Crunchbase away from a grow-at-all-costs model and focused especially on building out its new prospecting tools. Crunchbase on Wednesday announced a $50 million raise that ...

The thought of a potential global recession might have you cutting back on spending. Startup investors are doing it, too. Venture capital investors are pumping the brakes on aggressive funding of ...

Data has become a dirty word. Although groundbreaking technologies like machine learning and predictive analytics rely on vast troves of the stuff, the lax treatment of people's data by tech giants ...