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October was a busy month for U.S. startup funding, led by well-known venture investors with a healthy appetite for big deals. We take a look at active investor rankings across three categories: lead deal count, largest lead investments and total venture rounds.
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Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
Waymo co-chief executive Tekedra Mawakana says partnering with Uber was “a little bit of a crapshoot” for riders. On the same day, Uber told investors that robotaxis earn more on its platform than on their makers’ own apps. Mawakana spoke to Emily Chang on Bloomberg’s The Circuit.
IonQ now expects revenue of $505M to $515M this year. The quantum computing company raised the outlook on Thursday as third-quarter revenue more than quadrupled to $173.8M. Its earlier forecast was $450M to $460M, and it had revenue of $130M in 2025, Bloomberg reported.
AI is finally helping adopters boost revenue, but revenue growth still falls short of productivity and other metrics.
Cloudflare’s third-quarter revenue rose 39% from a year earlier to $782.5M, taking its annualised revenue past $3bn. The company reported the results on Thursday and raised its forecasts for the full year. Co-founder and chief executive Matthew Prince called it “Cloudflare’s best quarter ever”.
AI chip startups can challenge the sector’s Goliath’s by building substantially better hardware for emerging inference demands, much as Juniper challenged Cisco with a new architecture suited to the internet’s rapid growth.
Siggy has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to build a mental health service that uses AI to collect patients’ histories and track progress between appointments with licensed clinicians, the startup told Crunchbase News exclusively.
Dropbox has announced plans to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million in a transaction the company told Crunchbase News would mark its largest acquisition since its founding in 2007.
Companies spanning construction and robotics have raised about $1.6 billion so far this year — more than 4x the $389 million recorded in all of 2025 — according to Crunchbase data. The surge was driven by three companies that raised the majority of the funding.
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