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

[Crunchbase News]( February 10, 2024 [1]( [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 →]( [2]( [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 →]( [3]( [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 →]( [4]( [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 →]( [5]( [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 →]( [6]( [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