How long does it take to build a unicorn? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Ilya Strebulaev and his Venture Capital Initiative team analyzed the journeys of thousands of U.S. venture-backed companies, tracking several to unicorn status...
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Pitching your startup’s funding news to today's time-pressed reporters is not as simple as it used to be. In this guest commentary, Sarah Mattina...
Private equity giant Blackstone Group is making a $300 million strategic investment into DDN, valuing the Chatsworth, California-based data storage...
AI once again dominated venture capital last year. But what about some of the other industries that got big deals in 2024? Let’s take a look at who...
Usually the rounds with the most money or biggest-named investors get the headlines, but there were plenty of deals this year that were eye-catching...
While 2024 has been a somewhat boring year for tech startup IPOs with just a handful of U.S. tech unicorns making it to market, we present some IPO...
U.S. venture funding has ticked higher this year, led by the AI investment boom. But not all geographies have shared equally in the gains. We take a...
So far in 2024, just 118 small and midsized U.S. startup investors — excluding funds operated by firms that have raised $2 billion or more in total —...
From a startup funding standpoint, the political swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona are...
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