The one-year-old startup, which does market research on simulated populations, had a multi-tier valuation round, sources tell TechCrunch.

Micro1 started the year with roughly $7 million ARR. Now, it claims to have surpassed $100 million in ARR, double what it reported in September.

Harvey confirms a third enormous round of funding in 2025 that has skyrocketed its valuation. Again.

Day One Ventures' Masha Bucher doesn't just invest in startups — she also tells their stories. Her integrated model aligns incentives and proves conviction matters more than contracts.

Nexus Venture Partners manages $3.2 billion in capital across its funds and has invested in more than 130 companies over the years.

While VCs have long used big investments to spur category winners, they are taking this strategy to new extremes.

Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.

Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has solved the AI hallucination problem in a compelling way.

Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential. 

Adam Joseph was shocked when Mark Cuban replied to his email with an inquisition full of questions.

As women's sports enters what feels like a sustained boom period -- the Golden State Valkyries just played their first WNBA next season, the NWSL is expanding, media rights deals are growing -- Nortman remains cautiously optimistic about whether this moment will prove different from past surges in interest.

On Wednesday evening at Playground Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don't understand yet will explain what's coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025, and truly, the lineup is ridiculous.

On this week’s Equity, we sat down with Dennis Green-Lieber, the founder of the AI company Propane, to talk about the booming success of the Nordic ecosystem.

An investor explains the "buy, fix, and hold" model employed by Bending Spoons and similar companies that buy distressed startups.

Google and Accel will jointly invest up to $2 million in each startup through their new partnership.

The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.

Daver is full of lessons for founders. Among them: "You have to repeat yourself all the time, and you have to say the same thing."

Curastory’s founder and CEO, Tiffany Kelly, has resigned from the role and replaced herself with Dave Dickman, former CEO of the influencer marketing platform Tagger.

Suno has been the target of multiple AI training lawsuits but it has grown so rapidly, VCs were delighted to invest.