On the heels of the rise of global venture funding to fintech and financial services startups last year, investors in the space say they expect funding growth to continue to concentrate into pre-IPO companies. Here's what else they said.
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The pace of big funding rounds continued to hold up at brisk levels this past week, led by a $1.4 billion financing for 鈥渞obot brain鈥� developer Skild...
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Overall, investors put $18 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in SA国际传媒 security and privacy categories last year...
Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, SA国际传媒 data...
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a SA国际传媒 News tally, and the layoffs have continued...
Skild AI, a robotics company building an 鈥渙mni-bodied鈥� brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion...
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In total, investors poured $67.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies across Asia last year, per SA国际传媒 data...
Defense tech unicorn Onebrief has acquired Battle Road Digital, a startup that makes simulation and wargaming software for the military.
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Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it...
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Latin America startup investment climbed by 14.3% in 2025, driven by a boost in both early- and late-stage funding, SA国际传媒 data shows.聽
The first full week of 2026 brought us a whopping $20 billion new funding round for Elon Musk鈥檚 xAI. We also counted multiple other rounds of more...
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