| Hi, Agen. Raising mere millions — or even tens or hundreds of millions — of dollars wasn’t going to cut it this year if you wanted to land on our list of the largest startup funding deals. The companies that topped the list each raised at least $1 billion in a single funding round. Plus, a look back at the wild, acronym-filled year in startups and venture capital. While funding continued to trend down in 2023, big raises were there to be had. More than a dozen startups in the U.S. — many of them AI startups — raised $500 million or more in funding rounds and some got a lot more than that. We look at the biggest rounds of the year, starting with a $10 billion round to you-know-who. AI. SBF. FTX. SVB. The startup world was awash in an alphabet soup of acronyms this year. Some of the biggest startups, and the institutions that back them, failed. But the dawn of a new AI age also injected new optimism into the tech world — even as the biggest artificial intelligence startup was embroiled in intense drama. Let’s look back at some of the biggest moments in an action-packed year in tech, startups and VC — and what it means for 2024. Funding to the unicorn class of companies — those private startups valued at $1 billion or more — has fallen dramatically in 2023, to around 22% of what it was in the 2021 market peak. So perhaps it’s no surprise that investments in unicorn companies by leading investors from Andreessen Horowitz to Coatue have dropped precipitously in 2023. See also: The Crunchbase Unicorn Board For the startup world, 2023 was an action-packed year — with AI adoption exploding, the failure of the largest startup bank, and layoffs piling up each week — and readers flocked to our coverage of these topics. With that, let’s take a look at 10 of Crunchbase News’ most-read stories of 2023. Do you feel more upbeat or gloomier now compared to a year ago? What are the big tech trends and stories you’ll be watching in 2024? And do you expect the market for new tech IPOs — which briefly opened a smidge this fall — to swing wide open next year? Tell us in our latest brief, anonymous Crunchbase News reader survey. | 
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