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Fifth Wall Founder: The Best Proptech Bets May Not Look Like Proptech
Fifth Wall's Brendan Wallace told Crunchbase News why proptech funding statistics understate real AI bets in real estate, and what founders should do about it.
Venture Investor Names Four Conditions for the Birth of New Super Apps
Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures argues that super apps will grow where four factors overlap: mobile access, weak competition, poor banking and a crisis of trust.
Crunchbase: AI and Energy Lead the Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds
Crunchbase News's weekly top 10 rounds feature AI infrastructure, a foundation model developer, content protection and energy.
Consultant Itay Sagie: Customer Workflows Are Becoming the Moat for AI Companies
A Crunchbase News column advises AI startups to measure customer dependence on the product, and tells investors and acquirers to look at integrations and access to workflows.
Venture Funds Kept Their Deal Pace in Q3 Even as Dollar Volume Fell
Crunchbase News: in Q3, active investors held or increased their deal pace while total funding fell, because no new record AI mega-rounds landed.
Black Operator Ventures: Black Founders Need to Close the Series A Gap in the AI Era
Black Operator Ventures co-founders James Norman and Sean Green explain how Black startup founders can bridge the gap between seed and Series A funding amid the AI boom.
DeepSeek's $7.4B Round Pushes Asian Startup Funding to a Three-Year High
Investors put $42.8B into Asian startups in Q2 2026, a record in more than three years. China's DeepSeek alone accounted for $7.4B, nearly a sixth of the total.
Fintech Investment Rose 23% in H1 2026 as Capital Piles Into AI and Infrastructure
Venture funding for fintech rose 23% in the first half of 2026, but deal count fell by a quarter: capital is consolidating into larger bets on AI and financial infrastructure.
Why AI Won't Kill SaaS: Dell Technologies Capital on the Future of Startups
Dell Technologies Capital's Daniel Docter explains how AI is reshaping SaaS, why the business model won't die out, and why distribution will ultimately decide the fate of AI startups.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.5 Billion, the Largest AI Round of the Week, Crunchbase Says
Enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI closed $1.5 billion in funding, the week's biggest deal among mostly AI-focused companies, according to Crunchbase News.
QED Investors' Nigel Morris: Why AI Will Reshape Finance More Than Any Previous Wave
Capital One and QED Investors co-founder Nigel Morris says AI will drive banks' marginal costs to near zero and force them to cannibalize their own businesses.
DeepSeek Leads Wave of AI Unicorns: 10 AI Labs Add $65 Billion in June 2026
In June 2026, 34 companies worth over $110 billion joined the Crunchbase Unicorn Board; 10 are AI labs led by DeepSeek, with a combined valuation of $65 billion.
US and Canadian startups raised a record $392 billion in the first half of 2026
Investments in US and Canadian startups exceeded $392 billion in the first half of 2026, setting an unprecedented record thanks to activity in the AI sector.
EdVisorly raises $13.3M Series A for AI automation of student admissions
EdVisorly has raised $13.3 million in a Series A to scale its AI platform that automates back-office processes for student admissions at universities.
Five startup deals of June 2026: AI for biology and agents for services
Crunchbase highlighted five notable funding rounds: startups are advancing AI for biology, solving document workflow issues in the private sector, and building AI agents for dispatching services.