Financing startup Capchase has secured a new round of funding, consisting of $26 million in equity and a $174 million credit facility, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively. 01 Advisors led the round,
By Shawn Bercuson Every year for the past several years, the same prediction circulates: This is the year the IPO market comes back. We said it in 2025. We said it in 2026.
The economics of seed investing have changed dramatically since the AI boom began, a review of Crunchbase data shows. Seed rounds are larger than ever, with some startups now raising $8 million to
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a
SpaceX filed its public IPO prospectus Wednesday, highlighting many amazing things that it has accomplished. Turning a profit is not one of them. At least not these days. The space and AI pioneer
We’re thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. Harshita has been a Visiting Partner at YC since the Summer 2025 batch, making her the youngest visiting
Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations. We previously decided to remove Canada from this list because we noticed that our top-performing Canadian companies reincorporated in
Jeff Bezos invested $250,000 in Google in a very-early round because he liked the entrepreneurs — Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Based on the success of this investment, an analyst suggests that the
ChatGPT currently has around 180.5 million users. The website generated 1.5 billion visits in September 2023. Entrepreneurs are using it to help them secure press coverage, grow their audience and be more productive.
In the U.K. and across Europe as a whole, those with an interest in the creation and growth of deeptech startups are both excited and concerned. The excitement comes from knowing that graduates
