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By Eric Francia How would you handle a junior employee questioning the way you’ve always done something? Might you roll your eyes and dismiss their comments as naivety? Or would you indulge their curiosity? As AI has made knowledge accessible on a scale never seen before, companies are becoming leaner and operating faster. What once…

Kerry Washington is expanding her angel investment portfolio, serving as lead investor in the pre-seed round of the wedding marketplace Cheersy.  Cheersy, which was founded in 2024 by Amy Shack Egan, helps couples find day-of-service wedding coordinators and has raised a total of $550,000 from other investors, including Elizabeth Cutler, co-founder of Soul Cycle, and…

Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million.  Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal has drawn $400 million worth of interest from prospective investors. The group reportedly includes Silicon Valley funds, Middle Eastern venture capital firms and financial institutions….

The British fintech has built a waitlist of about 450,000 users in India as it prepares for a broader launch. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Venture investor Menlo Ventures 1 said Tuesday that it has raised $3 billion in new capital — the largest new raise in the firm’s 50-year history — to back AI-focused startups across enterprise, healthcare and consumer sectors. The Menlo Park, California-based firm highlighted its early investment in Anthropic, which last month overtook rival OpenAI as the…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…