For the past few years the M&A market for startups has been slow — and the IPO pipeline nonexistent. However, just as AI is taking over venture, perhaps it is doing that for the M&A and IPO markets. We take a look.
M&A
Among the six companies joining The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May, the AI and Web3 sectors each counted two, and five are U.S.-based.
After a few slow weeks, things picked up slightly concerning big funding deals. Most surprisingly is the fact the week was led by an autonomous...
Venture funding continues to flow to the radiopharmaceutical sector, with a recent large funding round and one of the biggest M&A deal closings to...
Big M&A deals don’t always involve the buzziest industries or companies, with the biggest acquisition so far this year involving an auditing platform...
Safeguarding your business from unpredictable setbacks requires diversification of customers, suppliers and more, warns strategic adviser Itay Sagie...
CyberArk Software has agreed to buy machine identity company Venafi for $1.5 billion, in the largest this year for a private cybersecurity company...
If the current sluggish pace of IPOs and acquisitions continues, it would take decades for every U.S. unicorn to generate an exit.
The general consensus among VCs at the RSA Conference was that while they are listening to a lot of pitches from startups that use AI or help secure...
With IPOs still in a lull, funding flat and valuations down from their frothy highs, many have predicted an M&A boom is nigh. But Q1 saw just a...
Nvidia made more AI waves when it recently acquired two startups in the industry. We take a look at Crunchbase data to see what's been happening on...
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