DeepSeek's $15.9B Round Drives Global Venture Funding to $59B
Global venture funding hit $59 billion in October, up 45% year over year, powered by DeepSeek's record $15.9 billion raise at a $90 billion valuation.
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Ipo Market
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Ipo Market
Venture Capital Is Setting Records While Most Startups Starve
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UK Venture Capital On Track for £25 Billion Year, KPMG Says
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Goldman Crushes Estimates While JPMorgan Stumbles in Rare Miss
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Cooling IPO Market Threatens Cash Distributions to LPs
A cooling IPO market threatens to push off cash flow distributions to limited partners, Pensions & Investments reported, squeezin…
Pittsburgh Startups Raised $163M in Q3 as AI Doubts Chill IPOs
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Oura Withdraws Its IPO Plans
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Oura Pulls $15bn Nasdaq Listing Days After Filing
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