While 2026 has shown encouraging signs, with Black-founded startups raising approximately $643 million by late May, the strongest quarter since mid-2022, the improvement was driven largely by a handful of unusually large financings.
Dr. Mert Akın tarafından kurulan ve teknoloji geliştirme çalışmalarını Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory bünyesinde, Activate ve Cyclotron Road programları kapsamında yürüten EELI Technology, uygulamalı elektrokimya ve ileri malzeme teknolojilerini kullanarak daha önce ekonomik olarak…
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn’t believe the business model is headed for extinction, why he thinks distribution may ultimately separate the winners from the losers among AI…
Teknoloji dünyasında yerli girişimlerin ayak sesleri her geçen gün daha gür çıkıyor. Özellikle yapay zeka entegrasyonuyla birlikte, günlük hayatımızı ve iş süreçlerimizi kökten değiştiren yepyeni platformlar karşımıza çıkıyor.
Mexico’s startups led the LatAm pack in Q2 — by a wide margin. The country’s startups raised $944 million in the second quarter, up 131% compared to $409 million in last year’s Q2, and up 136% from the $401 million raised in this year’s first quarter, per Crunchbase data.
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.
We put together a snapshot of recent startup funding tallies and trends for World Cup finalists Spain and Argentina. While neither accounts for a particularly large share of global or even regional investment, both have an intriguing pipeline of recently funded companies. Here’s what we found.
Türk girişimci Bercan Kılıç’ın kurucu ortağı ve CEO’su olduğu robotik şirketi microagi, 55 milyon dolarlık tohum yatırım turunu tamamladığını duyurdu. Hummingbird Ventures liderliğinde gerçekleşen tura Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global ve redalpine katıldı.
Despite attention-grabbing AI mega-seed rounds, historical data shows that very large first financings rarely produce venture-scale returns because high entry valuations limit investor upside.
Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. Led by China’s $7.4 billion DeepSeek raise, that’s by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years.
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