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Miravoice, a startup using AI voice agents to conduct long-form phone surveys, has raised $6.3 million in a seed funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured $300 billion into 6,000 startups globally in the quarter, up over 150% quarter over quarter and year over year, marking an a
A majority of top seed funding recipients in the past six months operate at the intersection of AI and the physical world. Using Crunchbase data, we take a look at some of the sector's biggest seed rounds in recent months.
Whoop, which provides wearable fitness technology and a subscription platform that tracks physiological data for insights, announced Tuesday that it raised $575 million in Series G funding at a $10.1 billion valuation.
The merger is a sign that the fitness industry is continuing to move toward consolidation to compete at a larger scale. Recent moves include MyFitnessPal acquiring Cal AI, an AI calorie counting app, and Strava buying two apps: cycling app The Breakaway and running app Runna.
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.
The pace of large-scale dealmaking picked up some this week, led by OpenAI’s disclosure that it raised another $10 billion. Other big financings went to startups and growth-stage companies in sectors including defense tech, enterprise AI, autonomy and even laundry.
Among U.S. seed funding deals, it’s only the upper bands of larger and outlier seed rounds — those $10 million and above — that grew in 2025, Crunchbase data shows.
Over the past few years, a new category of mobile apps has quietly exploded into a multi-billion dollar business. They’re called “microdramas” — short-form, mobile-first scripted shows designed to be watched vertically on your phone. Think soap opera meets TikTok, complete with secret billionaire ro
Over the past few years, a new category of mobile apps has quietly exploded into a multi-billion dollar business. They’re called “micro dramas” — short-form, mobile-first scripted shows designed to be watched vertically on your phone. Think soap opera meets TikTok, complete with secret billionaire r
The startup provides an e-prescribing marketplace for the booming cash-pay clinic market.
San Francisco-based OpenAI has turned to M&A to boost its offerings and stay ahead of its rivals through acquisitions, which total 17 companies in the past three years, Crunchbase data shows.
Trayd, a startup that is building a back office operating system for the construction industry, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Kleiner Perkins' fundraise includes $1 billion for KP22, a fund to back early-stage companies, and $2.5 billion targeted for growth-stage investments.
After a whistleblower alleged that the startup fabricated audit evidence, its prominent Series A investor removed an article detailing why it led the deal.
Flighty's new feature will give users real-time updates about why operations at an airport are disrupted.
The slowdown is almost entirely due to fewer giant AI megarounds closing this month.
Startups often miss out on valuable tax credits because they lack processes to identify, document and claim them throughout the year, writes guest author Harrison Garba. By proactively integrating tax credit planning into hiring, operations and financial decisions, he says, companies can reduce cost
Rubi has developed an enzymatic process to turn carbon dioxide into cellulose that's ready to be spun into lyocell or viscose.
The race to back the next generation of billion-dollar startups accelerated last year as the stable of unicorn startups filled up again. A total of 187 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in 2025 — up 61% from the previous year — driven largely by the AI boom.
