unicorn startups
Enterprise
Accounting software startup Pennylane becomes France’s latest unicorn
9:00 pm PST • February 7, 2024
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…
Startups
While everyone keeps talking about AI, HR tech startups are quietly building toward a $24B market
9:09 am PDT • June 23, 2023
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.
Most unicorns never were what they were purported to be. Instead, a lot of startups were granted big budgets to LARP as unicorns.
Startups
Plummeting unicorn births underscore a changing venture capital market
12:25 pm PDT • October 7, 2022
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.