Joanna Glasner

Could the election cycle bode well for a 2025 U.S. IPO market pickup? We take a look back at post-election year IPOs.

U.S. advertising-focused startups have raised only around $360 million so far this year, putting the industry on track for the slowest year in over a decade. We did some digging and share what we found.

In recent months, the tech IPO market has been stuck in what seems to be the slowest gear imaginable. Action will pick up in coming days, however, with the expected Nasdaq debut of Chinese autonomous driving startup WeRide.

The time lapse between funding rounds for early-stage startups has reached the highest point in more than a decade.

So far in 2024, American consumer electronics companies have secured less than $300 million in seed through late-stage investment, putting the space on track for the slowest fundraising pace in at least 10 years.

Over the past few years, companies in the space have raised more than $750 million in venture funding. And investment continues to flow, with Silicon Valley-based Fortera, a developer of low-carbon cement technology, closing this week on the year’s biggest round.

The first half of this year has seen the median round size for funding at seed through Series C pick up.

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These days, hearing about hot companies in generative AI raising huge rounds at multibillion-dollar valuations has gotten pretty routine.

The week saw a handful of nine-figure rounds, and some at pretty big valuations. That included one large round minting a new unicorn that has...