Tech Layoffs: US Companies With Job Cuts In and 2023 and 2024
WEB5 days ago · By the numbers. Layoffs during the week ended Sept. 27, 2024: At least 466 U.S. tech sector employees were laid off or scheduled for layoffs, per a Crunchbase News tally. In 2024: At least 86,913 workers at U.S.-based tech companies have lost their jobs so far in the year, according to a Crunchbase News tally. …
Crunchbase News: Data-driven reporting on private markets, …
WEB2 days ago · Crunchbase News. More than 191,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2023, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the cuts have continued into 2024. See who the latest companies are to... Stay up to date with recent funding rounds, acquisitions, and more with the Crunchbase Daily.
The Emerging Unicorn Board: Meet 300 Companies That Could Be …
WEBApril 19, 2022. Gené Teare @geneteare. Today, Crunchbase News is launching The Crunchbase Emerging Unicorn Board, a curated list of startups on the path to achieving billion-dollar valuations, also known as unicorn status. The startups on our Emerging Unicorn Board are private companies valued at $500 …
The Most Active Biotech Venture Investors in 2021 - Crunchbase …
WEBDec 29, 2021 · The Most Active Biotech Venture Investors in 2021. Janice Bitters Turi. December 29, 2021. Janice Bitters Turi. Investment into biotech and health care boomed during the pandemic as thousands of venture capital firms turned their attention to breakthrough artificial intelligence, cancer-detection …
Running The Numbers on Y Combinator’s Best Year Yet
WEBDec 14, 2020 · This has been by far the best year yet for Y Combinator, the prestigious Silicon Valley startup accelerator, with two of its biggest portfolio companies debuting on the public markets and the largest acquisition ever of one of its alumni.. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily. This year also marks the beginning of a new era for YC, as the program is commonly known, that could see twice as many of ...
Why VC Investors Are Plowing Record Sums Into Agtech
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · Last year was a record year for agtech, with nearly $5 billion invested in the sector in 440 funding deals to VC-backed startups, according to Crunchbase data. That far outstrips the $3.3 billion invested in 422 deals in 2020. Last year saw four deals of a quarter-billion dollars or more: Goleta, California-based Apeel Sciences, which develops ...
What Current Series B Trends Say About The US Startup Scene
WEBMar 10, 2022 · Trend No. 1: More money. Series B investment has trended up for each of the past five years. We look at total funding and round counts below: 2021: $55.9 billion invested across 1,242 rounds. 2020: $25.4 billion invested across 835 rounds. 2019: $21.8 billion invested across 827 rounds. 2018: $20.2 billion invested across 878 rounds.
Under The Hood: A Closer Look At Stripe, The Most Highly Valued …
WEBApr 20, 2021 · Given Stripe’s status as the U.S.’ most highly valued venture-backed private company, and its pivotal role in e-commerce, we decided to take a peek under its hood and use Crunchbase data to understand the business a bit better.
Lunar Energy Lights Up With $300M For Smart-Home Tech
WEBAug 24, 2022 · Investors’ appetite for clean energy tech seems to be insatiable right now. Mountain View, California-based Lunar Energy became the latest startup in the sector to raise a large amount of funding, announcing it has closed $300 million of investment over two rounds in the past two years as it quietly worked in stealth.. Lunar Energy is attempting to build the full ecosystem of hardware and ...
Crunchbase Unicorn Company List
WEB5 days ago · The Crunchbase Unicorn Board. The Crunchbase Unicorn Board is a curated list of the most valuable private companies in the world. Powered by Crunchbase’s comprehensive data, this unicorn company list is updated as companies are valued at $1 billion or more in a new funding round.. Valuations are based on companies’ most recently disclosed funding rounds.