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Bellevue, Wash.-based traffic data company Inrix has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Arity.
Why it matters: Inrix's asset sale to Allstate's Arity shows how a two-decade independent traffic-data business exits after repeated IPO attempts, and it flags the privacy litigation now attached to driving-data deals.
3C, the liquid cooling startup founded by former CoolIT CEO Steve Walton, merged with UK-based Datalec Precision Installations on Oct. 14 to form 3C Datalec.
Why it matters: The merger shows how liquid cooling is being folded into full data centre design and operations, with revenue targets and hiring plans that indicate the scale of demand.
Toronto-based AgTech startup Molagri raised $5.2 million USD ($8.2 million CAD) in seed funding led by Convective Capital.
Why it matters: The round shows how AI-driven protein design is moving from lab research into agricultural biotech, with Y Combinator and Paul Graham backing a two-person Toronto team.
Pear VC closed its fifth fund at $333 million, about $99 million less than the $432 million it raised in May 2023.
Why it matters: Pear VC's smaller Fund V shows how seed investors are betting that early founder access, not fund size, decides who wins AI deals.
Scimplify raised a $25M all-equity round led by Hitachi Ventures, with Henkel and Teknor Apex joining as investors.
Why it matters: Scimplify's round shows how AI agents are being applied to specialty chemicals and critical materials, with revenue and customer numbers that indicate real commercial traction.
Getty Images plans a prearranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy that will take the company private while keeping its Seattle headquarters and its roughly 300 local employees. Members of the Getty family and Koch Equity Development affiliates will invest up to $533 million and co-own the company, with bondholders retiring $270 million in unsecured debt and public shareholders expected to be wiped out. Getty posted $84 million in operating income on $981 million in revenue last year but a $206 million net loss, and its creative stock-photo revenue fell 2.6% in Q2 amid competition from AI-generated images.
Why it matters: Getty's prearranged Chapter 11 shows how AI-generated imagery and smartphone photography are pressuring the stock-photo business model.
IonQ agreed to acquire zero trust cybersecurity startup Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3B.
Why it matters: IonQ's all-stock purchase of Elisity shows how quantum vendors are buying enterprise security distribution rather than building it, and the earnout terms reveal what the price actually bets on.
Endeavor Catalyst closed its fifth fund at $320 million.
Why it matters: Endeavor Catalyst's fifth fund shows where non-Bay Area founders are getting funded while most venture money concentrates on Silicon Valley AI.
North American startup funding fell 35% quarter over quarter to $92 billion in Q3.
Why it matters: Crunchbase's quarterly data shows the funding dip traces to the absence of OpenAI and Anthropic megarounds rather than a broad venture pullback.
Global venture funding reached $159 billion in Q3 2026 across nearly 6,000 startups.
Why it matters: Crunchbase's Q3 2026 data shows a record 27 billion-dollar rounds and $159B in global venture funding, giving readers a concrete read on where AI capital is concentrating.
Superorganism closed its first fund at $25.9 million, with backing from Cisco Foundation.
Why it matters: Superorganism's first fund shows how a biodiversity-focused VC defines its category and check sizes, useful context for founders and LPs weighing nature-tech strategies.
TechCrunch compiled a running list, using Crunchbase and PitchBook data, of the VC-backed startups that reached $1 billion valuations in 2025.
Why it matters: A month-by-month record of the startups that crossed $1B in 2025, useful for seeing which AI segments, from inference to agents, drew the largest rounds.
Sequoia Capital announced a $750 million early-stage fund for Series A startups and a $200 million seed fund.
Why it matters: Sequoia's new funds keep the same size as its 2022 vehicles, and the piece names the early AI bets that paid off, giving a concrete read on how top firms are pricing the AI boom.
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