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Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of conditions.
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Over the weekend, Swedish reports revealed that Samson studio Liquid Swords have gone bankrupt less than a year after releasing their debut crimebrawler. Founder and former Just Cause lead Christofer Sundberg subsequently confirmed that Liquid Swords are headed for closure.
A new study offers an explanation for unusual chemical signatures found in some volcanic rocks.
Pigment, a Paris-based AI software maker for business planning, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250M in a Series E round, valuing the company at $2.3B. Nvidia also plans to invest, adding to its recent European bets.
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.
SpaceX made more money from artificial intelligence than from Starlink in the third quarter, as total revenue rose 161% to $14.6bn. The company also swung to a net profit of $4.4bn, from a $1.1bn loss a year earlier, according to its quarterly results, the second it has published since its listing.
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
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…
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.
A continued boom in late-stage and growth funding combined with a surge in seed-stage funding helped buoy venture investment in Latin America for the third quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows.
Enterprise AI companies relying on armies of forward deployed engineers are disguising labor-intensive services as scalable software, inflating recurring revenue and valuations while falling short of autonomy claims, argues Anurag Gurtu, co-founder and CEO of Airrived.
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