Mary Ann Azevedo

Financial infrastructure provider Plaid** introduced two in-house foundational artificial intelligence models on Thursday that aim to dramatically

Financing startup Capchase has secured a new round of funding, consisting of $26 million in equity and a $174 million credit facility, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.

The share of U.S. startup funding going to companies with Black founders in 2025 remained low, even as overall funding ticked slightly higher, Crunchbase data shows.

Generative AI company Anthropic announced on Thursday that it has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, more than doubling its post-money valuation to a staggering $965 billion.

Co-founded by Molly Huyck and Amie Konwinski, Aequitas Invest's funding portal provides women-led businesses a way to raise capital. Crunchbase News recently spoke to the founders to learn more about their plans to help female entrepreneurs raise and hold on to more equity.

All-in-one software ecosystem provider Scotch is a Denver-based AI-native operating system designed specifically for liquor store owners.

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The consistently low numbers of U.S. venture funding to Black founders led some to turn to investing in an effort to help level the playing field. Crunchbase News talked with two such founders to hear more about their experiences in raising capital and what they’ve learned from investing.

In an interview with Crunchbase News, Vikram Taneja, head of AT&T Ventures, shares why he believes that while AI has drastically lowered the barrier to building software, it has also shifted the definition of seed-stage technical risk.

In the first half of 2024, Albert Wang was working as an oil trader at Morgan Stanley , and his co-founder, Eric Xu, was a quantitative portfolio