A Quick Trip Through The Recent History Of Startup Naming

Believe it or not, there was a time when reading through the names of the last 1,000 funded startups was ...
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7 Questions With Google Brain Founder Andrew Ng On How His Venture Studio Builds And Backs AI Startups

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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Exaforce Lands $75M To Bring AI Agents To Security

Funding to venture-backed cybersecurity startups has trended up so far this year, and Thursday saw another sign of that. Exaforce ...
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Cybersecurity Firm Island Raises $250M, Jumps Valuation To $4.8B

Dallas-based enterprise browser developer Island raised a $250 million Series E at a $4.8 billion valuation. The new round was ...
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Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI

In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but ...
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Funding To US Chip Startups Spikes As Global Dollars Fall Amid Trade Uncertainty

As trade war winds swirl and countries seem poised to battle for semiconductor supremacy, global venture investment in the industry ...
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Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab to Make AI More Accessible

Last September Mira Murati unexpectedly left her job as chief technology officer of OpenAI, saying, “I want to create the ...
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After DeepSeek Hysteria, The AI World Is The Same As It Ever Was

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It’s been ...
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Advertising Startup StackAdapt Snags Massive $235M Round

Advertising technologies do not interest investors as they once did, however, when you mix in artificial intelligence they take note. ...
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Fusion Startup Helion Powers Up With $425M Series F

Fusion startup Helion Energy locked up a $425 million Series F — valuing the company at $5.4 billion — as ...
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