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While last year wasn鈥檛 the cascade of M&A activity many had wished for (and certainly the IPO pipeline never unfroze), it did provide some hope. Deal activity actually increased 7% from 2023, with Q4 being the strongest quarter for M&A involving VC...
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The startup world begins 2025 on a decidedly more upbeat note than it did the previous year. The renewed optimism is in part due to the modest uptick...
North American venture funding spiked in the final quarter of 2024, closing out an up year for startup investment driven by continued momentum around...
For the final article in our AI investor series for 2024, we spoke with Citi Ventures, one of the more active corporate venture investors through the...
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Will the M&A market pick up next year and, with it, the IPO pipeline?聽And what about the tech job market? Every year, we offer up some predictions...
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While the venture market in 2024 continued to wobble well below its pandemic-induced highs, VCs and those close to the industry are cautiously...
What are the big business stories you鈥檙e watching in the new year? Are you gearing up to raise new capital in 2025? Or are you cutting costs?聽These...
In the world of startups, the allure of venture capital often overshadows the virtues of bootstrapping, writes guest author Itay Sagie who highlights...
Could the upsurge awaken the long-slumbering M&A market for crypto startups, especially as funding has dipped in the sector for a few years and many...
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In Q3, there were 479 M&A deals globally for VC-backed startups, per Crunchbase data. That鈥檚 a very small drop from the 500 deals consummated in Q2 鈥�...
So far in 2024, just 118 small and midsized U.S. startup investors 鈥� excluding funds operated by firms that have raised $2 billion or more in total 鈥�...
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