Deals & M&A
Mergers, acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and IPOs: who is buying whom, and for how much.
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Forget typosquatting; slopsquatting is the software supply chain threat created by AI coding tools
Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI…
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57% of enterprises have watched AI agents be confidently wrong. The fix is an agentic context layer, but who has one?
An enterprise AI agent answers with total confidence, but the number is wrong. Nobody catches it until someone traces it back to a…
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Wall Street is debating the AI buildout. Enterprises just answered: 86% say their GPUs run at half capacity or less
Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. Tha…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead
AI once again dominated venture funding this week, claiming five of the 10 largest announced rounds, including a pair of billion-d…
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Google's TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it's never seen
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable m…
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Carlyle exits solar and energy storage developer Copia to EQT for $2.6bn
The acquisition builds on EQT's broader AI infrastructure portfolio, including EdgeConneX, Zayo, Zelestra, OX2, Madison Energy, Cy…
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork
The five most intriguing startup deals from the past month include one that’s simultaneously developing AI models for biology, a c…
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PE backs primary care digitalization push: 6 deals
Apollo, Arsenal, Kain Capital and OMERS Private Equity are among the PE firms that have invested in primary care. The post PE back…
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HR tech deals to the fore with Shore Capital, Lightyear and Bridgepoint signing deals; Apollo bids for budget airline EasyJet
Morning all, Craig McGlashan here with the Europe Wire from the London newsroom. Private equity firms have had a busy week in the …
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Shared API keys expose AI agents at 69% of enterprises, new VentureBeat research finds
Share one API key across five AI agents, and a single compromised agent inherits the reach of all five. The attacker immediately b…
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Ares, Littlejohn, Palladium, TPG among firms evaluating sale of environmental service providers, sources say; Kohlberg exits cake decorations company to Sentinel
A look at the largest trash hauler in New York City, one of four private-equity backed environmental service companies that are sa…
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Charlesbank completes investment in secondaries PE firm Overbay
The Overbay team remains significant long-term shareholders alongside Charlesbank and retains control and independence of all inve…
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Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up
In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows. All told, Europe-based startu…
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Exclusive: EdVisorly Raises $13.3M Series A To Fix The Messy College Transfer Process With AI
Los Angeles-based startup EdVisorly tells Crunchbase News exclusively that it has secured a $13.3 million Series A funding round t…
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Familiar Names Top Active US Investor Ranks In Q2
To get an expanded sense of how busy startup backers spent Q2, we put together several rankings for active investors. These includ…
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Your SaaS Metrics Are A Result, Not A Strategy
SaaS metrics like LTV/CAC, NRR, GRR, ARR growth, and the Rule of 40 are valuable indicators of business performance, writes guest …
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North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI
Overall, investment in U.S. and Canadian startups totaled a staggering $392 billion for the first half of 2026, per Crunchbase dat…
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Sector Snapshot: Cleantech Startup Funding Stabilizes As Energy Demand Grows
In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in Crunchbase cl…
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A Year Of Misplaced Fear (And Why It’s Time For Investors To Leave The Crowd)
Many venture capital LPs have reacted to recent economic uncertainty by concentrating investments in megafunds, mistaking perceive…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Energy And Biotech Lead The Way
U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the wa…