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Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year’s dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
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Hello Group, the Nasdaq-listed company behind dating apps happn and Coffee Meets Bagel has acquired a majority stake in Amsterdam-based dating platform Inner Circle. The two companies announced the deal today but did not disclose the price or the size of the stake.
Virgin Media O2 could be set to lay off 4,000 of its 16,000 workers amid plans to tackle company debt.
How real-time payment telemetry and AI can prevent costly in-store checkout failures.
This week featured a robust lineup of large rounds, led by manufacturing startup Re:Build, which closed on $2.1 billion, and predictions marketplace Kalshi, which picked up another $1 billion.
Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI hasn’t managed to reverse the funding slowdown. We share what a review of Crunchbase data shows.
Crunchbase data shows that so far this year, investors have poured around $48 billion into financings around the Series B stage, the highest tally in years. Yet round counts are below year-ago levels and are on track for a multiyear low. We take a look at the data.
AI megarounds are masking a shrinking Series A market, leaving seed founders facing higher revenue expectations and longer timelines despite larger seed checks. To improve their chances, MGV’s Marc Schröder says, founders should size their seed funding around Series A milestones.
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