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• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Predictions of agrand IPO rebound in 2026have yet to come true in the form of new filings and major debuts. • Nonetheless, the first couple months

• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• The post Profound: Building the Marketing Command Center for the AI Era appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners . • - Founded - 2024 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment -

• DraftKings And FanDuel Both Cut Jobs And AOL Makes Its Layoffs Tracker Debut It’s been another week full of layoff reports for the U • tech workforce, particularly for the online

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn As a venture partner withTTV Capital,Mike Hurstsaw the liquidity challenge firsthand after the tech market reset in 2022. • VCs were hesitant to c

• Marni Blake Ellis Marni Blake Ellis is an Emmy-nominated producer with experience at TLC, Bravo, MTV, VH1, PBS, HBO, and other networks. • She has worked on numerous reality show

• - Founded - 2024 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2026 - Stage Invested - Series A Stacks builds purpose-built AI for enterprise accounting. • We automate the most manual a

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• Every so often at Crunchbase News, we take it upon ourselves to review every sizable seed round of the past few months, seeing what trends arise. • This time around, given the ex

• - Founded - 2025 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2024 - Stage Invested - Series A Castelion was founded to restore America’s ability to field advanced weapons at speed and

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ownwell, an AI-powered startup that appeals property taxes on behalf of homeowners, has secured $50 million in financing, including $30 million in

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Somewhere in the past 25 years, we began to confuse two things that are not the same. • We started treating ‘innovation’ as something that only ha

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn As global venture funding in 2025ratcheted up to the third-highest totalon record after the peak years of 2021 and 2022, capital also concentrated

• Netflix Rejoins Layoffs Tracker As Tech Pinkslips Pile Up In A Busy Week Marked With M&A Fallout And Gaming Sector Losses The past week has been busy indeed, with more than a doz

Firetiger introduces 24/7 agent monitoring to detect anomalies in AI-generated code. Traditional dashboards replaced by automated incident handling, reducing engineering overhead.

• Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they can measure them. • In our Q4'25 survey of 59 executives, 80% said AI agent adoption is a priority, but 40% can’t track or do

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Vestwell, a digital savings platform, has raised $385 million in a Series E funding round co-led byBlue Owl CapitalandSixth Street Growth. • The N

• Over past two years, biotech M&A exceeded $38B, surpassing many historic tech exits. • 2026 kickoff: Eli Lilly to pay up to $2.4B for Orna Therapeutics, boosting in‑vivo cell the

• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• - Founded - 2019 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2026 - Stage Invested - Series D Temporal develops and distributes one of the world’s leading open source Durable Executio

• - Founded - 2021 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2026 - Stage Invested - Series B tem is building the new transactions infrastructure for a modern energy market to solve o

• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• 02/17/2026 Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on linkedin Copy link Announcing our Investment in Temporal: Agents Make Mistakes. • Your Workflows Can’t. • One of our core b

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn A rising tide may lift all boats. • But lately it lifts California boats the most. • In 2025, only two states with a sizable venture scene saw a y

• 31 new unicorns joined Crunchbase board in January, highest monthly count since June 2022. • Combined $9.3B funding and $58.5B valuation added across these startups. • Four of th

• Autonomous and adaptive systems are impacting every level of the pharmaceutical manufacturing value chain. • Across R&D, production, quality control, and logistics, a new set of

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn As global energy demand continues tosurge, driven by both rising household consumption and fast-expanding AI infrastructure, startup investors are

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn For a while, AI felt like a cheat code. • Mention AI on an earnings call, announce a bigger data center plan, sign a flashy partnership, and the m

• AI-defined vehicles(AIDVs) represent the next evolution in vehicle platform design, using AI as the foundation for continuous learning, adaptation, and improvement. • However, on

• The Opening, Midgame and Endgame in Startups Why the best founders are ’time travelers’ who play all three phases simultaneously In the Prod community, they talk about founders a

• Heavyweights Salesforce And Zillow Continue Trimming Staff In A Busy Week For Layoff Reports Thirteen companies landed on our tech layoffs tracker this week. • While no particula

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn AI-powered robotics companyApptronikannounced Wednesday that it has raised $520 million in an extension of its $415 million Series A raise in Febr

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Big-name investors. • That, in the most basic prose, was the general atmosphere for U.S. • startup funding in January. • Well-known firms topped t

• Shuvi Shrivastava In venture, don’t assume anything. • Constantly check what is fact vs opinion. • 1991 was a special year: the World Wide Web was made publicly accessible, and I

• - Founded - 2020 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2023 - Stage Invested - Series B Tome is a new storytelling format that gives your work and ideas the edge they deserve. •

• - Founded - 2016 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2021 - Stage Invested - Series D Webull is a financial company committed to synergizing technology with finance by providi

• - Founded - 2010 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2010 - Stage Invested - Series B ihaveu is a notable e-commerce platform in China that sells luxury and designer goods in

• - Founded - 2006 - Status - Acquired by Lotte - LSVP Investment - 2006 - Stage Invested - Series A Luckypai was founded in 2006 and became a leading TV home shopping company oper

• - Founded - 2023 - Status - Private - LSVP Investment - 2023 - Stage Invested - Seed - LSIP Investment - 2023 - Stage Invested - Seed Markato is a curated wholesale marketplace c

• Resolve AI’s multi‑agent system triages alerts, investigates incidents, and aids production debugging across code, infra, telemetry. • It mirrors expert engineer reasoning, turni

• ElevenLabs is transforming how we interact with technology through AI research and products. • The Agents Platform enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer

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• over a decade asAI founders’first call DEEPENING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC AI is different. • Its potential to transform our lives is even more profound. • As the past three

• Partnering with Waymo to Reshape how the World Moves 1,190,000. • That’s the number of road traffic deaths in a year. • They are a leading cause of death for children and young a

• Partnering With Flapping Airplanes Building the ‘young person’s AGI lab’ to unlock data efficient models, which we believe is the bottleneck to laddering up the next rung of AI i

• Insurance claims currently involve tedious, multi‑system data entry, consuming hours per submission. • Pace AI agents ingest SOPs, read documents, and interact with back‑office s

• Over 1,300 MENA investors backed equity deals last year, driving intense competition. • Aramco Ventures tops list with 100 deals since 2023, dominating high‑growth sectors. • UAE

• Robotics venture funding hit $40.7B in 2025, 74% YoY growth, 9% of total VC. • Physical AI models let robots learn from real‑world data, not pre‑programmed rules. • Market map li

• Sequoia invests in Kais Khimji as partner, valuing his work ethic, learning appetite, and EQ. • Kais transitions to founder, launching Blockit, an AI-driven time optimization app

• YC Fall 2025 batch shows AI core, but infrastructure now the differentiator. • 92% of 155+ startups embed AI in core offerings, focusing on agents, robotics, vertical apps. • Ear

• 2026: This is AGI Years ago, some leading researchers told us that their objective was AGI. • Eager to hear a coherent definition, we naively asked ‘how do you define AGI?’. • Th

• Blues Makes Every Thing Smarter Ray Ozzie and his team built a low-cost, easy-to-use solution to connect any device to the cloud. • ‘No one can do what Blues can do!’ That’s the

• Partnering with Sandstone: An AI-Native Platform for In-House Legal Teams Nick and Jarryd are empowering in-house legal teams to streamline and scale their operations. • The firs

• Partnering with WithCoverage: Insurance As It Should Be JD, Max, and their team are breaking the scaling laws of risk management. • As the old saying goes, insurance is bought no

• AI is now a universal focus for retail banks, with generative AI use cases emerging across operations, from fraud prevention to customer service. • As agentic AI systems gain tra

• After decades of development and false starts, autonomous driving is finally entering a phase of commercial deployment. • Waymonowoperatesover 2,000robotaxis, completing250,000+w