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Just like clockwork, Pennylane is raising another €40 million ($43 million at today’s exchange rate). This new funding round comes after the accounting startup raised €4 million in 2020, €15…

Accounting software startup Pennylane becomes France’s latest unicorn

While VCs, founders and major tech companies compete to see who can say “AI” the most in a week, people are busy building other, more useful stuff.

While everyone keeps talking about AI, HR tech startups are quietly building toward a $24B market

Most unicorns never were what they were purported to be. Instead, a lot of startups were granted big budgets to LARP as unicorns.

Turns out most unicorns today are more myth than reality

Per Crunchbase data, the rate at which unicorns are being born has fallen nearly 80% from its peak, which was notably reached one year ago.

Plummeting unicorn births underscore a changing venture capital market