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Sector Snapshot: Quantum Computing Startup Investment Slows In 2026 While Public Markets Hold Strong

Crunchbase News · May 18, 2026

While deal counts remain robust for quantum startup investments and big rounds are still getting done, overall funding is on track to decline some from last year’s peaks.

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk

Crunchbase News · May 15, 2026

Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a laptop screen. They include a supplier of cell-based milk, a startup that bills itself as the operating system for modern law firms, and a defense tech startup that makes containerized manufacturing platforms for drones and other equipment near the battlefield.

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Exclusive: Physician-Founded Saile Raises $2.2M To Help Doctors Find Side Jobs Using AI

Crunchbase News · May 13, 2026

Saile, which just raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, is building an AI-powered credentialing and staffing platform designed to help physicians quickly pick up side jobs.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Enterprise AI, Space Tech And Biotech Top The Ranks

Crunchbase News · May 8, 2026

Another week, another infusion of big AI rounds.

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Sector Snapshot: Sales And Marketing Gets An AI Makeover

Crunchbase News · May 8, 2026

So far in 2026, companies in sales, marketing and CRM categories have pulled in around $2.7 billion globally in seed- through growth-stage funding, per Crunchbase data.

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AI Is Rewriting What Investors Should Look For In Early Startup Teams

Crunchbase News · May 6, 2026

Technical expertise still matters, but when everyone can build, thanks to AI, it no longer differentiates, writes guest author Aaron Tainter, director of accelerator programs at Innovation Works. And that forces a harder question for investors: If the product isn’t the moat, what is?

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech Leads With Multiple Large Deals, Topped By $600M For Space Security Startup True Anomaly

Crunchbase News · May 1, 2026

Large U.S. venture deals this week were led by a massive defense tech raise for space security startup True Anomaly. We also saw sizable deals for startups applying AI to fintech, marketing, customer service, healthcare and developer tools.

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Data: The Seed Funding Boom Is Concentrating Capital In The San Francisco Bay Area

Crunchbase News · May 1, 2026

In 2025, the Bay Area expanded its dominance of U.S. seed funding — capturing a growing share of both deals and dollars — even as most startups remained geographically dispersed, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows, resulting in a more bifurcated landscape.

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Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round

Crunchbase News · Apr 29, 2026

Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform that aims to help people build data-driven companies without hiring a data team, has raised $3.7 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

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Exclusive: Goldman Sachs Leads $60M Series C For Personal Loan Fintech Kashable

Crunchbase News · Apr 27, 2026

Kashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, has secured $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ Sustainable Investing.

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The IPO Pipeline Finally Gets Interesting

Crunchbase News · Apr 24, 2026

S-1 filings have been plentiful the past few weeks for venture-backed startups providing semiconductors, nuclear and geothermal power, biotech, and space and defense tech queuing up for a possible trip to the public markets.

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A Better Way To Fail: How This Platform Aims To Turn Startup Shutdowns Into Something Salvageable

Crunchbase News · Apr 22, 2026

Los Angeles-based SimpleClosure has launched Asset Hub, a marketplace aimed at helping founders sell assets such as source code, data and equipment during the wind-down process. Crunchbase News spoke with founder Dori Yona about the new offering as closures rise and investors place greater value on “clean” shutdowns.

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