The AI IPO Wave Is The Dot-Com Bubble’s Evil Twin. Anthropic’s Delay Just Proved It.

Spotify hits 306 million subscribers and expects 316 million by year end

Spotify ended the third quarter with 306 million paying subscribers, up 9% from a year earlier, according to its third-quarter update, published on Thursday. Monthly active users rose 11% to 788 million. Revenue grew 16% to €4.97 billion, or 14% at constant exchange rates.

NordVPN’s Black Friday deal gives business travelers 3 bonus months

NordVPN’s running its Black Friday sale, and its Prime / Ultimate Max plan with Cyber Insurance it’s a must for business travelers working on the move.

Acquirers Are Snapping Up Boom-Era Startups That Haven’t Raised Funding In Years

A number of companies whose names might feature on a playlist of 2021 boom-era unicorns have sold to acquirers in recent months, including one-time highfliers like Airtable, Headspace and Miro.

Your Next Customer Might Be An Agent. Here’s How To Build Your Brand For Both Humans And AI.

As AI agents increasingly recommend and purchase products, brands must appeal to both machines and humans by documenting their voice, creating clear product descriptions and checking how AI summarizes their messaging.

UK government hasn’t the foggiest how much it’s spending on digital transformation

Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment

Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch back Zurich robotics startup in $30m pre-seed

When A Startup Sells, Its Employees’ Equity Plans Can Change Overnight

Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of conditions.

‘Weird And Maybe Uninvestable’: How Reach Capital Spots Its Venture Winners

Crunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI detection company GPTZero, and why some of its best investments initially divided its own team.

How To Build A Billion-Dollar Company Without Venture Capital

Founders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for quality, hiring exceptional talent and automating processes to scale efficiently, argues Nacho De Marco, who draws on his experience bootstrapping BairesDev, to emphasize financial…

Fintech Funding Fell 21% In Q3 As Deals Grew Scarcer

All told, fintech startups raised $10.6 billion globally in the third quarter of 2026, down 28.4% from $14.9 billion in Q2 2026 and 21.4% from $13.5 billion in Q3 2025.