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With AI hype peaking, it would seem that investment in AI startups would be correspondingly high, but surprisingly, it's way down.

Revolut's situation seems like awful news for other neobanks. How much more room do less profitable neobanks have to fall?

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Global fintech funding totaled $15 billion in the first quarter of this year, growing 55% from the fourth quarter, according to CB Insights’ latest State of Fintech report.  While this generally ma

Ever since the tech downturn began affecting startups, a question kept coming up: What if we are witnessing a correction?

Data from Carta seems to confirm that VC funds are opting to support portfolio companies over making new investments: The frequency of bridge rounds boomed during the last quarter of 2022.

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. In fact, the three-month period marked the lowest quarter for U.S

Total venture funding in 2022 amounted to $415.1 billion, 35% less than in 2021.

Let's examine the pain that late-stage startups are dealing with today, and what it could mean for unicorns jammed between changing venture preferences and a seemingly closed IPO market.

Top climate tech investments continued to diversify, showing just how deeply it’s becoming embedded into the economy.

Fintech fundraising has fallen along with the rest of the venture activity. But the portion of VC activity that fintech can lay claim to is also in decline.

Which is more reflective of the market today: H1 2022 numbers compared to their year-ago comps or the high-impact repricings seen by Instacart, Klarna and others?

To really understand what’s going on with Latin American venture capital funding, we have to go deeper than the regional perspective can afford us.

Did no one tell European venture capitalists and startup founders that we’re supposed to be on the cusp of a global recession?

Data indicates that Africa is not only posting year-over-year gains in venture capital fundraising, it could also be on track for a record year.

As expected, global venture totals fell last quarter. According to CB Insights data, some $108.5 billion was raised by startups across 7,651 deals in Q2.

Both startup and venture capital reached an activity zenith at some point in the last few quarters -- but when?

Let’s dig into the early Q2 data on venture capital investment into LatAm startups, and then discuss the halo effect — or lack thereof — of Latin American giants like Nubank.

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Looking at the changing pace of CVC activity, geographic trends and more.