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October ’19 Startup Funding: Mega Harvest
By Jeff Dorsch - 11 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

Seventeen startups took in mega-rounds of $100 million or more during October, with a cumulative total of just over $3.2 billion. Cybersecurity startups continued to be popular with private investors during the month of October, with 15 financing rounds. Twenty automotive and mobility technology firms picked up new investments. Analytics firms, artificial intelligence/machine learning techno... » read more

Over $7 Billion Raised In Mega-Rounds By 27 Firms
By Jeff Dorsch - 02 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

It was also a good month for private equity firms and venture capitalists to raise their own rounds, with the money to be invested in early-stage companies and more mature ventures. A semiconductor company led the month. Nexperia, once the Standard Products business unit of NXP Semiconductors, took in $1.5 billion of senior credit facilities. The money will go toward refinancing debt and par... » read more

Week in Review – IoT, Security, Autos
By Jeff Dorsch - 27 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

Products/Services Achronix Semiconductor joined Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s IP Alliance Program, part of the foundry’s Open Innovation Platform. Achronix’s Speedcore eFPGA IP is available today on TSMC 16nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) and N7 process technologies, and it will be soon available on TSMC 12nm FinFET Compact Technology (12FFC). Cadence Design Systems announced that its di... » read more

July’19 Startup Funding
By Jeff Dorsch - 07 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 0

During the month of July, 21 technology startups took in mega-rounds of $100 million or more. Those companies together received more than $7.5 billion. On the other end of the financing spectrum, dozens of startups got seed funding or a Series A round. The dollar amounts were much smaller. Still, they are the beating heart of entrepreneurship around the world. It also was a month when som... » read more

June’19 Startup Funding
By Jeff Dorsch - 11 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 0

During the month of June, there were 15 startups that brought in funding rounds of $100 million or more, as investors continued to chase deals in cybersecurity, automotive technology, semiconductors, and a variety of services. There were no billion-dollar deals as spring slid into summer; yet, those 15 companies together raised a total of about $3.13 billion. Aurora Innovation, the developer... » read more

May’19 Startup Funding: Mega-Funding Rounds Continue
By Jeff Dorsch - 05 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

In May, 20 startups enjoyed the distinction of getting a mega-round of $100 million or more in private funding. Those 20 companies together took in more than $6.65 billion. There were two billion-dollar investments in recent weeks. GM Cruise, the autonomous vehicle startup, received $1.15 billion in new funding from General Motors, Honda Motor, the SoftBank Vision Fund, T. Rowe Price Asso... » read more

April’19 Startup Funding: Corporate Gushers
By Jeff Dorsch - 02 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

It was another rich month for startups, large and small. In April’s top 11 funding rounds, five were investments by big corporations or corporate venture capital funds—an investor consortium led by the SoftBank Vision Fund, PayPal, Ford Motor, NTT DoCoMo, and HAPSMobile, a joint venture of SoftBank Group and AeroVironment. Those 11 investments totaled $3.74 billion. Intel Capital was als... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 05 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Tools & IP Cadence entered the system design and analysis market with the release of Clarity 3D Solver, which creates S-parameter models for use in signal integrity, power integrity, and electromagnetic compliance analysis. The tool uses a distributed adaptive meshing approach for cloud and on-premises distributed computing and it optimized to distribute a job across multiple low-cost comp... » read more

March’19 Startup Funding: Money Springs Forth
By Jeff Dorsch - 04 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Another month, another couple of billion-dollar rounds. Singapore-based Grab raised nearly $1.5 billion from the SoftBank Vision Fund, bringing its total private funding to more than $4.5 billion and valuing the company at around $14 billion. Grab has acquired Uber’s ride-hailing business in Southeast Asia and now competes chiefly with Go-Jek of Indonesia in Thailand and other emerging mar... » read more

January ’19 Startup Funding: $100M+ Rounds Abound
By Jeff Dorsch - 30 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Sixteen companies received private funding rounds of $100 million or more during the month of January, with two privately held companies, Infor and Verily Life Sciences, taking in rounds of $1.5 billion and $1 billion, respectively. The market segments represented in the January rounds were varied. Multiple companies using artificial intelligence technology in their offerings and cloud-based... » read more

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