San Francisco-based Crunchbase has rebooted itself as an AI-powered predictions engine, leaving behind its roots as a historical data repository to forecast private market moves with up to 95% accuracy and 99% recall. Unveiled on February 19, 2025, this shift taps billions of live market signals to deliver intelligence to organizations sizing up the innovation…
25 landmark R&D-heavy tech funding rounds of 2024
[Updated December 18, 2024 with new details on Databricks] In 2024, AI-focused startups continued to dominate the funding landscape with industry leaders like OpenAI ($6.6B), xAI ($6B), and Anthropic ($4B) leading the pack. Adding to this trend, MLflow and data lakehouse pioneer Databricks recently secured a $10 billion funding round that was primarily equity-based, at…