There Was Never An Easy AI Era, And Investors Are Raising The Bar

Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures and Skyward Group, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

In this guest article from Airrived co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu, he contends that Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth does not justify its proposed $2 trillion IPO valuation, given enormous infrastructure commitments, safety concerns,…

As AI agents increasingly recommend and purchase products, brands must appeal to both machines and humans by documenting their voice, creating clear product descriptions and checking how AI summarizes their messaging. Guest author Toby…

Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of conditions. Guest author Ron Honig, co-CEO and managing partner of From-Honig Family Office, suggests that before making…

Crunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI detection company GPTZero, and why some of its best investments initially divided its own…

Founders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for quality, hiring exceptional talent and automating processes to scale efficiently, argues Nacho De Marco, who draws on his…

All told, fintech startups raised $10.6 billion globally in the third quarter of 2026, down 28.4% from $14.9 billion in Q2 2026 and 21.4% from $13.5 billion in Q3 2025.

A continued boom in late-stage and growth funding combined with a surge in seed-stage funding helped buoy venture investment in Latin America for the third quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows.