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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: SiFive Leads With $400M For Custom Chip Designs As Aviation, Biotech And Defense Startups Also Raise Big
While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospac...
Apr, 10, 2026
4 min read
by Crunchbase
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Largest Financings Went To Defense, Wearables, Energy And Security
Startup investors kept up the busy dealmaking pace this week with a number of big rounds. Top among them was a $1.75 billion Series D for Austin-ba...
Apr, 03, 2026
3 min read
by Crunchbase
This Is A Momentous Year For Early-Stage Unicorns
A total of 47 seed- and early stage companies joined the unicorn ranks in the first quarter of this year, per Crunchbase data. Barring a major slow...
Apr, 03, 2026
3 min read
by Crunchbase
Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To Nearly $300B
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase...
Apr, 01, 2026
5 min read
by Crunchbase
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Varied Week For Big Deals, Led By AI And Defense
The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI’s disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings we...
Mar, 27, 2026
3 min read
by Crunchbase