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Fintech Startups Globally Raise More Money In Far Fewer Deals In Q1 2026

Global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $12 billion across 751 deals in 2026 as of April 6, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 5%...

Global Investors Help Boost Latin America’s Late-Stage Funding Boom In Q1

Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the three-month period ending March 31 — up year...

North America Q1 Funding Surges Across Stages To Record Level

U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds in the first quarter of 2026 per...

Tim Draper On The AI Boom, Bitcoin’s Future And Building ‘Human Accelerators’

A fixture in Silicon Valley for decades, Tim Draper has built a reputation for bold, often contrarian bets that have yielded some of the industry’s...

January Delivers Highest New Unicorn Count In More Than 3 Years

A total of 31 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in January, the largest count of companies to join in a single month since June 2022...

In The Era Of Unicorn Valuation Escalation, A Trillion Dollars Isn’t What It Used To Be

How much money would it take to up all of the 100 most-valuable U.S. private, venture-backed startups at their current valuations? About $3.5...

Y Combinator Was By Far The Most-Active Fintech Investor in 2025, Data Shows

All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase...

Fintech Funding Jumped 27% In 2025 With Fewer Deals But Bigger Checks

Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data...

Stablecoin Startup Rain Raises $250M Series C at $1.95B Valuation – Its Third Round In Less Than A Year

Rain, which is building infrastructure for payments with stablecoins, has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round led by Iconiq. Its post...

Yes, I’m Biased. But Still, Leading Unicorns Like Anthropic Should Be Prepping For IPOs

Ever since the startup IPO boom of 2020-2022 came to a conclusion, market watchers keep trying to predict when we’ll see another. Hopes that 2025...