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Funding

How founders and investors set a startup valuation, calculate dilution and choose methods that fit the available evidence.

By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 day ago

Crunchbase’s July rankings put Khosla Ventures atop qualifying lead deals and Y Combinator atop total participation, with major ca...

By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 day ago

A YC-shared dataset counts 454 founders who returned with new companies, though expanding cohorts prevent a conclusion on particip...

By Marcus Adeyemi 2 days ago

Wordsmith AI has extended its June Series B by $14 million, taking the round to $84 million as it targets in-house legal workflows...

By Marcus Adeyemi 3 days ago

Former principal Adeel Khan built MagicSchool AI after ChatGPT’s release, then raised $62.4 million by pointing investors to early...

By Marcus Adeyemi 3 days ago

Volta raised $300 million with Nvidia and Michael Dell participating, alongside separate financing and a $10 billion cloud contrac...

By Marcus Adeyemi 3 days ago

Bloomberg reports Polymarket is in early talks for roughly $1 billion at more than $20 billion, after a reported $15 billion valua...

By Ingrid Halvorsen 3 days ago

Robinhood’s proposed RVII fund would back YC-linked startups through a public vehicle, with 4.18% expected annual expenses and a g...

By Ingrid Halvorsen 3 days ago

The EU AI Act sorts systems by risk, with bans already active and high-risk controls due in 2027 for companies serving EU use case...

By Ingrid Halvorsen 3 days ago

Crunchbase counted a record 14 billion-dollar rounds in July, while AI companies took $35 billion of the $65 billion global total.

By Marcus Adeyemi 4 days ago

Both invest for ownership and an eventual exit, but they commonly differ in company stage, control, deal financing and value-creat...

By Marcus Adeyemi 5 days ago

Menlo Ventures has raised $3 billion for two AI-focused funds, pairing seed investing with capital for Series B and later companie...

By Ingrid Halvorsen 5 days ago