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In 2021, global e-commerce-related startup funding peaked, but in 2025 those numbers have come crashing down to around $7 billion for the year, per Crunchbase.

Gigantic investments of $500 million dollars or more into Artificial Intelligence companies led a 38 percent increase in year-over-year third quarter global venture capital funding. Year-over-year third quarter increases in other early-stage investment levels were more modest, however, according to Crunchbase.com.

Six new unicorns were minted in May and, yep, two of them were AI companies, Crunchbase data released earlier this week showed. While newly-minted AI unicorns is a predictable enough phenomenon these days, I was caught more off guard by this: Two of May’s new unicorns are in Web3.

AI research firm AlphaSense to buy rival Tegus—only months after filing patent lawsuit

Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based VC firm, made headlines last week when a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Miami ruled that the firm suspend its Strivers Grant Contest. So, I thought I’d try to figure out what happens next and how Silicon Valley is…

Payactiv provides technology that allows employees to access their wages before scheduled paydays.

The wedding industry is massive, but it’s not a space that venture dollars have necessarily flowed into.

Crypto was on 2023’s naughty list, but some startups still managed to avoid coal in their stockings.

These are the Latino-founded tech companies that made the Latin Times List of salient startups of 2023