After another slow year in 2024 for new tech listings, there is an expectation that the IPO markets will pick up in 2025. A year ago, the outlook was not bullish. We take a look at what's changed.

The startup ecosystem is abuzz with the transformative promise of generative AI, but the excitement may come at a cost, explains Yael Benjamin, founder of Startup Snapshot, who shares the findings of surveys the research firm conducted of founders and GenAI experts.

In the past three months, investors have plowed close to $1.2 billion into a geographically dispersed group of online banking providers, Crunchbase data shows.

Will the M&A market pick up next year and, with it, the IPO pipeline? And what about the tech job market? Every year, we offer up some predictions for the startup world in the coming year. Sometimes we’re right, sometimes we’re wrong. So, along with a big grain of salt, here are the five top trends we’re watching in the new year.

Has AI hype exceeded its reality? Guest author Rob Biederman explains why he expects 2025 to represent a further return to sanity with distinct winners and losers in the industry.

AI cloud infrastructure startup Vultr raised $333 million in growth financing at a $3.5 billion valuation, marking the decade-old startup’s first outside round of financing.

While many venture investors enter 2025 fairly optimistic about startup prospects, other factors are likely to affect the funding environment — including a decrease in regulation in some buzzy startup sectors (crypto!) and the continued fervor around AI.

The very qualities and skills that enable a founder to establish a company and drive its early success can sometimes hinder business growth, argues Mikhail Taver of Taver Capital. In this commentary he explains why the answer may be to bring in new leadership and how to do that smoothly.

Databricks raised $10 billion at a $62 billion valuation, marking the largest venture capital raise of 2024 and one of the largest on record — even surpassing the $6.6 billion raised by generative AI giant OpenAI this fall.

While the venture market in 2024 continued to wobble well below its pandemic-induced highs, VCs and those close to the industry are cautiously optimistic political shifts and AI’s overwhelming influence will power the private market to a solid — or even great — year in 2025.