@jglasner

Freelance reporter. Specialize in finance, venture capital and private equity Foodie. Real estate investor. No Cal address. East Coast attitude.

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Biotech Share Of US Funding Hits Lowest Point In Crunchbase History news.crunchbase.com/venture/… via @crunchbasenews

Biotech Share Of US Funding Hits Lowest Point In Crunchbase History

The share of U.S. startup investment going to biotech companies has hit the lowest level in more than 20 years, as an ever-growing proportion of funding goes to AI upstarts in other sectors. We take...

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It think DARVO may the word of the year (or at least acronym of the year) for 2025. Shorthand for the manipulative tactic of "deny, attack, reverse victim and offender" it's a technique so overused in today's battles for public opinion that we need a quick way to call it out.
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Where Funded Founders Went To School: 2025 Edition news.crunchbase.com/startups… via @crunchbasenews

Where Funded Founders Went To School: 2025 Edition

There’s no degree requirement to be founder of a venture-backed startup. Nevertheless, our annual look at which U.S. colleges and universities graduate the highest number of funded startup founders...

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Like Bananas, Most Unicorn Startups Peak When Underripe news.crunchbase.com/startups… via @crunchbasenews

Like Bananas, Most Unicorn Startups Peak When Underripe

A startup, much like a banana, peaks when slightly underripe and its potential is both most obvious and mostly unrealized. We take a look at some of the sectors and startups that bear this out.

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How Startups Stopped Being Fun news.crunchbase.com/startups… via @crunchbasenews

How Startups Stopped Being Fun

Some of the most famous startup success stories feature companies adept at being both serious and ridiculous. Then, things got boring.

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Does US Startup Funding Rise In Post-Election Years? news.crunchbase.com/policy-r… via @crunchbasenews

Does US Startup Funding Rise In Post-Election Years?

U.S. startup investors don’t base funding decisions on who is in the Oval Office. But even so, election year uncertainties do appear to impact investment tallies, Crunchbase data finds.

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Longevity Startups Are Getting Funding, But Not As Fast As We’re Aging news.crunchbase.com/health-w… via @crunchbasenews

Longevity Startups Are Getting Funding, But Not As Fast As We’re Aging

A good-sized cohort of startups have raised funding in recent quarters with offerings aimed at slowing, sustaining or even shaving years off biological age. Now we’re on the cusp of seeing a closely...

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A ‘Shark’ Explains Why Pakistan Has An Underfunded Startup Scene news.crunchbase.com/venture/… via @crunchbasenews

A ‘Shark’ Explains Why Pakistan Has An Underfunded Startup Scene

We talked to Faisal Aftab, founder of Pakistan-based Zayn Venture Capital, about the country’s underfunded startup scene, his plans to boost funding with his role in the soon-to-be-launched

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The IPO Market Will End 2024 On A Low Note news.crunchbase.com/public/i… via @crunchbasenews

The IPO Market Will End 2024 On A Low Note

In busier years for tech IPOs, the week after Labor Day is a brisk period for roadshows by companies looking to make an autumn market debut. This year, however, isn’t playing out that way.

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North American Startup Funding Jumped Higher In Q2 news.crunchbase.com/ai/ai-xa… via @crunchbasenews

North American Startup Funding Jumped Higher In Q2

Funding to North American startups rose 30% quarter-over-quarter, driven by big rounds for artificial intelligence-focused companies. Early-stage dealmaking was particularly robust.

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The X algorithm seems compelled to try and make me outraged about what B-list celebrities think about political issues. Is there any way to make the algorithm understand that I don't care?
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Things are looking up a little, according to our latest data dive: North American Startup Investment Perked Up A Bit In Q1 news.crunchbase.com/venture/… via @crunchbasenews

North American Startup Investment Perked Up A Bit In Q1

Altogether, venture funding in American and Canadian companies totaled $35.2 billion in Q1 of 2024, per Crunchbase data. That’s a gain of 14% from Q4, which was the slowest quarter in years.

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Did another of these sem-regular dives in top trends for seed investors. Some pretty interesting findings, some obvious, others not. news.crunchbase.com/venture/… via @crunchbasenews

From Construction To AI Diagnostics, Here Are 5 Areas Where Seed Investors Are Most Active

Using seed-funding data, we looked at today’s cohort of very young funded companies and pieced together a sense of the technologies startup investors see most impacting our lives in future years.

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Investors Swipe Right On Some Dating Startups, But Don’t Make Big Commitments news.crunchbase.com/venture/… via @crunchbasenews

Investors Swipe Right On Some Dating Startups, But Don’t Make Big Commitments

Investing in dating startups is a lot like dating itself — despite the likelihood that most won’t go anywhere, investors still back a lot of them. We look at where the funding is going.

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Why Nautical Investors Are Pouring Capital Into Better, Lower-Carbon Ships And Boats news.crunchbase.com/clean-te… via @crunchbasenews

Why Nautical Investors Are Pouring Capital Into Better, Lower-Carbon Ships And Boats

With fuel-guzzling cargo ships traversing the world’s oceans estimated to emit more CO₂ into the atmosphere each year than all the airlines in the world, startups looking to address the issue have...

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Startups Are Further From Solving The Affordable Housing Shortage news.crunchbase.com/real-est… via @crunchbasenews

Startups Are Further From Solving The Affordable Housing Shortage

For those of us hoping innovative startups might succeed in solving the affordable housing shortage, recent news has not been reassuring. We look at what's happening in the space.

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Sadly, when it comes to trucks, venture capitalists are basically the opposite of country singers. Almost anytime they start dabbling with pickups and long-haul tractor-trailers, the result seems to be anything but a hit.news.crunchbase.com/transpor… via @crunchbasenews

VCs Have A Bad Relationship With Trucks

The list of failures at the intersection of trucks, trucking and startups is not a short one. Nor is it a cheap one. Failed companies raised billions before breaking down. We take a look.

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The unemployment rate seems a poor measure of economic prosperity given there are tons of poorly paid jobs employers would love to fill if they could find someone to take them. Seeing such jobs taken could easily be a sign people are worse off, as they don't have better options.
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Surprisingly Large Sums Have Gone Into Bug Farming Startups news.crunchbase.com/venture/… via @crunchbasenews

Surprisingly Large Sums Have Gone Into Bug Farming Startups

Venture capitalists have poured hundreds of millions into upstarts aimed at getting livestock, pets, and even people, to consume more bug products.

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These Are The Sectors Where Hot Seed-Stage Startups Are Clustering In 2023 news.crunchbase.com/venture/… via @crunchbasenews

These Are The Sectors Where Hot Seed-Stage Startups Are Clustering In 2023

Using Crunchbase data, we scoured through hundreds of the largest seed and pre-seed rounds in 2023 to identify trends.

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