Joanna Glasner

Investment platform Public announced Monday that it has raised $135 million in equity and debt financing amid sharp growth in adoption of its AI-enabled research features.

If you’re thirsty, you could drink plain water. It’s got zero calories, quenches your thirst, and keeps you hydrated.

Heirloom, a direct air capture company, or DAC, that uses modified limestone to pull CO₂ from the atmosphere, announced that it has raised $150 million in Series B funding.

While 2024 has been a somewhat boring year for tech startup IPOs with just a handful of U.S. tech unicorns making it to market, we present some IPO winners and losers for venture-backed tech and biotech companies.

Over the past couple years, we’ve seen a steady flow of venture investment to companies offering services aimed at reducing tax liabilities, with particular interest in startups using AI to automate the process.

Shares of ServiceTitan surged 46% in first-day trading on the Nasdaq Thursday, in what is likely to be the last, large IPO by a venture-backed unicorn this year.

It has not been a good year for edtech startup funding. Barring some last minute mega-rounds, investment in the space for 2024 is on track to hit the lowest level in years. The same holds true for deal counts.

In a Monday joint appearance with President-Elect Donald Trump, SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son announced plans to invest $100 billion in U.S. businesses and create at least 100,000 new domestic jobs.

In the past three months, investors have plowed close to $1.2 billion into a geographically dispersed group of online banking providers, Crunchbase data shows.

The five most-valuable technology companies have plenty of money to invest in startups. They’re in a particularly strong position today, with shares of each up sharply last year.