Chiefs And 49ers Players' Ventures Into Venture World, And January’s Top Funding Rounds

February 10, 2024 Chiefs, 49ers Battle It Out On The Gridiron — And In Venture World Both of the teams that will meet Sunday in Super Bowl LVIII have a few players looking to score touchdowns in the venture and investing world. We go deep to take a look. VC's Super Bowl Pros → The 10 Biggest Rounds Of January: Generate Capital, Recurrent Energy Top First Month Of Year Sometimes January can be slow as everybody is coming off their holiday hangover. But that wasn't the case last month, as 13 companies all snatched rounds of $100 million or more. January's Big Rounds → US Tech Giants Have Scuttled Over $70B In M&A Deals Following EU, UK Pushback It seems a lot of large technology acquisitions have fallen apart following pushback from European and U.K. antitrust regulators. In tandem, the value of these deals that didn't get done continues to mount. Scuttled M&A → AI Will Be Doing More Accounting If Startup Investors Have Their Way Investors have pumped billions into startups developing software to automate bookkeeping, auditing, compliance and tax filing. Now, increasingly, they're turning AI to the task. AI Accountants → Space Infrastructure Stayed Aloft In Tough Funding Climate The past few quarters have been sluggish for funding to scads of startup technology sectors. Spacetech, however, is not one of them. Last year, investors poured more than $4.6 billion globally into startups in the sector. Spacetech Funding → After Slowing Investment Pace, Lightspeed Ended 2023 On A High Note Lightspeed Venture Partners has been busy lately; its investment cadence in the final quarter of 2023 was the highest number of funding rounds it's taken part in in a single quarter since Q2 2022. Investment Uptick → Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | View in Browser | Unsubscribe Crunchbase, Inc. 564 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94104