Fewer Early-Round Unicorns, And Insight Partners' AI Investments

[Crunchbase News]( August 19, 2023 [1]( [As Venture Market Slows, Fewer Early-Round Unicorns Being Minted]( Of the 47 unicorns minted through the first seven months of the year, only 18 of them joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board after an early-stage funding round. [Early Unicorns →]( [2]( [Insight Partners Has Invested More Than $4B Into AI. What’s Next?]( New York-based investment firm Insight Partners has invested around $4 billion in artificial intelligence companies over the past five years. We talk with partner George Mathew about the firm's next moves. [Insight Investments →]( [3]( [‘Winners Take None’ Is A Mantra For Many In The Unicorn Era]( Using Crunchbase data on unicorn rounds, we put together a list of areas where startups raised gobs of cash without yet producing an emergent winner or winners. [Funding Fails →]( [4]( [New Unicorn Creation Has Dwindled From 2 Per Day To 2 Per Month]( Only two companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in July — the lowest monthly count since we started tracking new unicorn pacing by month at the beginning of 2020. [Dropping Counts →]( [5]( [The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Biotech Startup Abcuro Takes Top Spot]( The week felt slow news-wise, but it actually did provide a handful of pretty big rounds. As we head into the final slow weeks of summer it’ll be interesting to see where things go from here. [Biggest Rounds →]( [6]( [HR Tech Funding Falls To 3-Year Low After Flurry Of VC Interest]( Venture funding in HR has been called into the office (so to speak) through the last four quarters, taking in less than $3.3 billion as deal flow also slowed. [HR Tech →]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Service]( | [View in Browser]( | [Unsubscribe]( Crunchbase, Inc. 564 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94104