Y Combinator Amps Up Investing In Fintech Startups In 2025, Data Shows

Y Combinator Amps Up Investing In Fintech Startups In 2025, Data Shows
Venture funding to fintech companies has grown this year and concentrated into fewer companies, Crunchbase data shows. Leading the way ...
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Legal Tech Investment Hits All-Time High With Filevine Funding

Legal Tech Investment Hits All-Time High With Filevine Funding
Funding to legal tech startups has hit a record high in 2025, driven by investor enthusiasm for AI’s potential to ...
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AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
“If [a tool is] facing the general public, then using retraction as a kind of quality indicator is very important,” ...
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Why OpenAI May Never Generate ROI 

Why OpenAI May Never Generate ROI 
By Eugene Malobrodsky As AI companies with no product raise billions at monster valuations, OpenAI’s Sam Altman himself has called ...
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Distyl AI Raises $175M Series B At $1.8B Valuation, Up 9x From Last Funding

Distyl AI Raises 5M Series B At .8B Valuation, Up 9x From Last Funding
Distyl AI, a startup that aims to help Fortune 500 companies become “AI-native,” has raised $175 million in a Series ...
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Funding To HR Software Startups Rises As M&A Activity Heats Up

Funding To HR Software Startups Rises As M&A Activity Heats Up
It’s been a good year for human resources software startups. As of mid-September, HR software startups globally have raised a ...
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Oracle details UK investment with sovereign cloud and AI plans

Oracle details UK investment with sovereign cloud and AI plans
Oracle has shared new details on its UK investment programme, first announced in March, which includes AI services and a ...
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Inside Foundation Capital’s Strategy To Back Ideas Before They’re Industries

Inside Foundation Capital’s Strategy To Back Ideas Before They’re Industries
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series in which Crunchbase News interviews active investors in artificial intelligence. ...
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Robotics Funding Crests Higher As Figure Lands Another $1B

Robotics Funding Crests Higher As Figure Lands Another B
Robotics startup funding has hit the highest point in years, boosted by another giant round for a developer of humanoid ...
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WorkFusion, With Several Big Banks As Customers, Lands $45M For AI Agents ‘To Stop Bad Actors’

WorkFusion, With Several Big Banks As Customers, Lands M For AI Agents ‘To Stop Bad Actors’
WorkFusion, a startup that has developed AI agents for financial crime compliance, has raised $45 million in funding, the company ...
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