The OpenClaw Foundation has released v2026.8.1, which the project calls OpenClaw 2.0: 933 contributors, 569 first-timers, and more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half of every PR ever merged into the repo. Setup now reuses existing subscriptions, API keys and local models.
We ranked August’s most active startup investors across several categories, including lead backers, prolific venture dealmakers, highest spenders and seed investors, which were once again dominated by familiar names.
The standard four-year founder vesting schedule can leave departed founders with large equity stakes, complicating financing and control, and prompting costly litigation aimed at reclaiming shares. Guest author David Siegel, a partner at Grellas Shah LLP, shares ways startups can reduce these risks.
It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding, with four companies each raising $1 billion or more. The Boring Co. led with a $3 billion Series D, followed by AI coding startup Cognition at $2 billion.
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AI itself is no longer a durable differentiator, argues guest author SC Moatti of Mighty Capital, who says he strongest startup moats are counter-positioning and network economies.
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A total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in August, adding around $63 billion in value to the board.
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet.
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Sean Jacobsohn, a partner at venture firm Norwest, discusses where he still sees openings in the crowded market for finance software, how far companies should trust AI with accounting work, why HR startups may be better off attacking the secondary products of…
Paris-based generative AI startup Mistral AI said Tuesday that it has nearly doubled its valuation to more than $24 billion with a Samsung Electronics-led $3.5 billion Series D fundraise.
AI infrastructure dominated the largest venture rounds this week, with two multibillion-dollar deals in the sector taking the top spots. Data center and cloud provider Crusoe led with a massive $3 billion financing, followed by Fluidstack’s $1.5 billion raise.
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Venture investors poured $42 billion into just over 1,500 startups worldwide in August, Crunchbase data shows, down 25% from July’s $56 billion but still up a significant 122% compared to last August, which is typically a slower month for startup investment.
Lyte, a physical AI startup building sensing and perception technology for robots, has raised a Maverick Silicon-led $165 million Series C funding at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation.
In the first half of this year, 58 venture-backed companies joined the public listings at $1 billion or above, per Crunchbase data.
Félix, a Miami-based AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Real estate tech startup investors are being more selective about their bets and putting more money into companies using AI and other technology to make construction, property operations and real estate transactions faster and less expensive.
While the AI boom has disrupted funding patterns across the startup sphere, biotech has remained a rare steady sector for investment. For the past few years, global funding to biotech startups has hovered between $36 billion and $40 billion.
Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
So far this year, a record $20.3 billion in global seed- through growth-stage funding has gone to companies in space- and satellite-related sectors, per Crunchbase data. That’s already by far the highest annual tally on record, and we’ve still got four months left in 2026.
Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment valuing it at $5.2 billion.
In the fourth of a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding, we talk to Craft CEO Ilya Levtov, a Julliard-trained cellist who says he was able to launch his supply chain intelligence software company despite having never written a single line of code.
In the past two years, venture investors have poured more than $7 billion into legal and legal tech startups, most with an AI focus. Funding to the space hit a record level last year, with $4.6 billion invested, per Crunchbase data.
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