
Crunchbase Data: Global Startup Investment Hit Record $510B In H1 2026 As AI Boom Accelerates Funding And Exits
Global startup investment reached a record $510B in H1 2026, with Q2 2026 being the second-largest quarter on record at...
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Global startup investment reached a record $510B in H1 2026, with Q2 2026 being the second-largest quarter on record at...

Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is investing $30 million of his own money into Neo, an AI-powered alternative...

Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to launch a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, focusing on AI...

Venice AI has achieved unicorn status with a $65M Series A funding round while already being profitable with over $70M...

Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to monetize excess AI compute capacity by selling access to...

Wayve, an autonomous driving AI startup, launched an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation....

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, has reached a valuation of over...

Etched, an AI chip competitor to Nvidia, has reached a $5 billion valuation and secured $1 billion in contracts for its...

San Francisco's AI boom is rapidly inflating housing costs, making rent unaffordable even for high-earning tech...

Riverside, a podcasting platform, is expanding into newsletter publishing by leveraging AI to automatically generate...

Omnea, a London-based AI software company, launches the Omnea Future Founders Fund offering $250,000 in seed funding to...

Venture capital firms are misusing AI in their investment processes, according to Gilion's Henrik Landgren. He argues...

GV managing partner Dave Munichiello discusses Qualcomm's acquisition of Modular, highlighting how tech companies are...

Chamath Palihapitiya has raised $135M in Series A funding for his AI coding startup and will take on the CEO role. The...

Arena, a startup operating a popular free AI leaderboard, has reached a $100M valuation following the launch of its...

The article argues that measuring AI investment ROI through token counting is insufficient and doesn't reveal which...

South Korea announced a $576 billion investment initiative to advance AI chip development, partnering with Samsung and...

Proception, a robotics startup focused on developing advanced robot hands, has settled a trade secret lawsuit with...

Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has developed a humanoid robot capable of performing office...