Last mentioned: Mar 13, 2026
U.S.-based AI startups have recorded 17 funding rounds of $100 million or more in the first seven weeks of 2026, signaling an acceleration of the sector's dominance. This follows a record-breaking 2025 where 55 such mega rounds were logged, driving a 46% surge in overall North American startup funding.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Crunchbase News across our finance coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running finance beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Crunchbase News was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |