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Active US Investors Kept Busy Cutting Checks In October
The ranks of most-active U.S. startup investors featured familiar names in October, as leading players continued to back an AI-dominated assortment of large rounds. Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Accel, Nvidia and Y Combinator were standouts for the month across metrics including deal count, lead rounds and size of lead rounds. Overall, activity remained close to September’s busy levels, even as some big names scaled back a bit. Below, we look at October’s active investor rankings in closer detail across four metrics: active venture investors, lead backers, high spenders and seed dealmakers. Most-active venture investors Among venture investors, Andreessen Horowitz ranked as the most-active dealmaker, backing at least 14 rounds valued at $5 million or more during the course of the month. Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst tied for second place, with 13 deals each, followed by Accel, with nine. Lead investors As for lead investors, Andreessen once again led the pack on this count. The Silicon Valley firm led seven known U.S. post-seed rounds in October, well ahead of any other investor. Meanwhile, three other firms led four deals apiece: Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Accel. Highest-spending lead investors In addition to tracking who backed the most deals, we also try to gauge who put the most capital to work. This isn’t an exact measure, as rounds with multiple investors rarely break out individual contributions. However, we can get a sense by looking at who led or co-led rounds with the highest aggregate dollar value. By this measure, Nvidia was far and away the spendiest lead investor in October, mostly due to leading a $2 billion Series B for Reflection.AI. Next on the list is Mubadala Capital, which co-led a $1.38 billion financing for Crusoe Energy Systems, a developer of AI data centers and infrastructure. Seed investors Among active seed investors, meanwhile, Y Combinator held on to its customary spot in first place. The storied accelerator had more than 3x the reported seed investments of anyone else on the list. Even so, its investment pace slowed considerably month over month. Below are the other most-active seed investors An active month overall Overall, active investors kept busy in the course of the month, although several did tamp down the dealmaking pace. As we come closer to year-end, it’s likely we’ll see some pickup in coming weeks, followed by the usual winter holiday season slowdown. Illustration: Dom Guzman
Tech Giants Accumulate Huge Startup Stakes, Even As M&A Appetite Wanes
Why acquire a startup when you can get a piece of it instead? Increasingly, that’s the mindset of the world’s most valuable technology companies. Over the past couple years, the top tech giants have made comparatively few big-ticket purchases of venture-backed companies. However, the Big Five — Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon — have been actively and extravagantly investing in startups, particularly of the AI variety. Those stakes are adding up. Last week, OpenAI and Microsoft drove home the reality of just how valuable a startup investment can become. Under an updated company structure OpenAI unveiled last week, Microsoft holds 27% of OpenAI Group, its for-profit arm. That stake is worth around $135 billion, based on the generative AI unicorn’s recently reported $500 billion valuation. Other big solo stakes Microsoft’s OpenAI stake looks to be the most valuable private startup holding by one of the five largest technology companies. It’s also the most expensive investment, with Microsoft shelling out $10 billion in a 2023 financing, as well as backing follow-on rounds. However, other tech giants have also poured billions into startup deals in the past couple years. These include both solo financings and investments made as part of broader syndicates. Not surprisingly, the largest solo investments have mostly gone to generative AI leaders, topped by Anthropic and OpenAI. These are both strategic and financial investments, as the tech giants jockey to maintain their market edge in the AI age. Lead syndicate investments More commonly, the Big Five invest as part of syndicates. They don’t always insist on leading rounds, but they often do. Many of those deals turn out to be quite large. To illustrate, we used Crunchbase data to put together a list of the largest financings of the last couple years with one of the tech giants as lead or co-lead investor. In addition, the Big Five have also participated as non-lead investors in a number of giant rounds for companies including xAI, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, Mistral AI, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. You can make big returns doing this Besides the strategic benefits the tech giants derive from these investments, they’re also generating enormous paper wealth. Take Microsoft’s OpenAI stake. At $135 billion, it’s more than 6x larger than the purchase price of the largest completed private startup acquisition to date. (Meta’s 2014 purchase of WhatsApp). We don’t know the precise value of Amazon’s stake in Anthropic, but it’s also certain to be sizable. The e-commerce and cloud giant committed to invest $8 billion in the Gen AI company in 2023 and 2024. With Anthropic’s valuation nearly tripling over a six-month period this year to hit $183 billion, Amazon’s stake has obviously appreciated. Ditto for Google, which also invested in the company at lower valuations. Not just giant rounds The Big Five aren’t just making huge AI investments. They’re also actively partaking in startup rounds at various sizes and stages. Per Crunchbase data, so far this year, the group 1 has made at least 208 disclosed startup investments, with those rounds collectively valued at just over $70 billion. 2 Annual deal count for the prior four years also held up at similar levels, as charted below. Why invest in startups rather than acquire them? It’s probably not a money issue. Given that the five top tech companies have a combined market capitalization of over $18 trillion, they can afford to buy pretty much any startup they want. More likely, tech giants see strategic advantages in owning stakes of the most promising upstarts in relevant sectors. And seeing how many of these companies have shot up in valuation, there are financial gains to be had too. Related Crunchbase lists: Related reading: Illustration: Dom Guzman
The Grid Can’t Keep Up With AI, But Startups Are Primed To Help
By Mark Grace New York Climate Week 2025 is in the rearview mirror and COP30 is approaching swiftly. Now is a good time to take stock of the themes that are top of mind in the conversations that I have had with founders, operators and other investors in the space. Unsurprisingly, the theme of 2025 is AI, but there’s just one catch. AI is about to break the gridMark Grace For the first time in two decades, electricity demand is increasing, in large part due to the growth of data centers and computers. That’s not slowing down: Demand is expected to increase more than 30% over the next decade, yet the current energy grid is ill equipped to handle that transition. The grid is already under strain, and Americans are feeling the pain in a variety of ways: Average electricity prices nationwide increased 5% from July 2024 to July 2025 and more than 20% in some states. Outages have increased as well, with the average American experiencing 61% more outage time in 2023 vs. 2013. We’re paying more for less. But the question isn’t whether we can afford it. It’s whether our top-down model of centralized utilities can build fast enough to meet demand. The path forward requires both optimizing what we already have and building what we need next. Modernizing the grid we already have While that may be true, the first order of business is ensuring that existing energy assets work effectively and reliably. Investment dollars are flowing to modernize the existing grid and mitigate vulnerabilities to ensure that grid physical assets are sufficiently resilient to withstand the strains of increased energy demand and extreme weather. Fortunately, a host of companies are innovating in this critical space to address these challenges. Among the key players, Rhizome offers AI-driven climate risk analytics and resilience planning for utilities, while ThreeV Technologies provides visual data management and asset intelligence solutions. Gridware has developed a continuous grid-monitoring platform that helps utilities maintain real-time awareness of their infrastructure. Together, these companies represent some of the cutting edge of grid modernization efforts, combining advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, visual analytics and continuous monitoring to strengthen the backbone of our energy system. Investing in this space is critical to reverse the trend of increased utility outages — which have already increased materially over the past decade (mostly in part to weather). Increasing energy capacity is the second to-do, yet we’re falling behind. The U.S. will add about 63 GW of utility scale capacity in 2025, whereas China added about 429 GW of capacity in 2024 — nearly 7x that of the U.S. The solution is at the edge Fortunately, innovation comes at the edge, and there is strong momentum around scaling energy in a decentralized manner — the solution is bottom-up capacity growth through distributed energy resources such as rooftop and battery storage systems — quite different from the legacy systems in place today. The growth in distributed solar is proof that this is working: Of the 32 GW of solar capacity installed in 2024, 5.4 GW was distributed (defined as residential, commercial and industrial, and community solar). Rates of attaching battery storage systems, which resolve solar’s intermittency issues, continue to climb as well with over 79% and 61% attachment rates in California and Texas, respectively, in H1 2025. These stats are proof that distributed energy is feasible, and now the onus is on scaling. Cost has traditionally been a large barrier to consumer adoption, although that is changing with residential solar costs dropping more than 60% from 2010 to 2020. However, soft costs (sales and marketing expenditures) and financing costs have masked many of those efficiencies. This has partially been offset through federal tax credits, but per provisions in the OBBB, these will soon be phased out and leave behind considerable adoption hurdles. Decentralization as a coordination infrastructure Startups are responding. Consumer energy businesses like Daylight Energy 1 are using crypto-based networks to align incentives between homeowners and the grid. Instead of waiting for utilities or governments to fund new infrastructure, the Daylight Network rewards consumers in exchange for participating in their virtual power plant. The goal is to circumvent the range of expenses — hardware purchases, soft costs and financing costs — that have hampered consumer adoption to date and turn energy consumers into active participants in the grid. In a world where we can’t wait for governments to catch up and solve the set of issues that are straining the grid (and getting worse every year), startups have to step up with organic bottom-up tools to scale energy generation. From device coordination to financing to better energy management systems, there are ample opportunities for improvement. As a result, there is also ample opportunity for venture dollars to help these companies, whether it be investing in the businesses that manage the electrical load directly or providing the picks and shovels. The private sector can drive the transition faster than public systems. AI is not slowing down, and neither is climate volatility. We need to scale the energy infrastructure that serves as its backbone. Mark Grace is a principal at M13, a Santa Monica, California-based early-stage venture firm. Photo by Andrey Metelev on Unsplash.
Inside The Post-ChatGPT Playbook: A Founder’s Lessons On Building AI-Native Startups
By Matt Blumberg AI hype is reaching a tipping point. Every brand is racing to stay ahead of the adoption curve, but not every approach yields the same results. In the first half of 2025, billions of dollars flowed into the U.S. AI startup ecosystem. But the game has changed. We’re entering a “post-ChatGPT era,” where generative AI isn’t a differentiator, but a necessity. If a founder wants their AI startup to stand out and lead the next wave of innovation, it needs to be more than AI-enabled. That’s why today’s founders need to embrace an AI-native strategy. Why does being AI-native matter now?Matt Blumberg As a repeat founder, I’ve learned the value of this through relaunching a legacy brand as AI-first. Just bolting on AI isn’t enough to stay competitive. Founders need to cultivate reinvention and operate like an AI-driven company from day one. If you’re still tacking AI onto your product as an afterthought, you’ve already fallen behind. Being AI-native matters now more than ever as it’s the foundation of market competition. This next generation of startups will shape their architecture, go-to-market strategy, and customer value proposition as AI-first. This requires an important mindset shift to begin solving problems created by AI. Existing startups may rethink their approach. Ask yourself, “If we were starting this company today, how would AI define our business?” AI-native startups are positioned to thrive Adopting an AI-at-the-core mindset comes with clear competitive advantages. Trust as a cornerstone of AI strategy AI clearly offers companies practical advantages and solutions to common startup pain points. But embedding AI is more than rebranding and deploying models into workflows. It’s crucial to cement responsible practices as well. The promise of AI is powerful, but founders can’t afford to ignore risks around data quality or misinformation. These concerns remain very real for customers, employees and potential investors. Founders need to be champions of responsibility and accountability by designing governance and guardrails into their startups’ core. The result? AI-native companies that move fast and build lasting trust. Lessons from a repeat founder The founder’s playbook has changed. Just a few years ago, you could build powerful human-centered products and add automation later. Today, founders must operate differently. My experience has taught me to listen to the market, especially when it tells you to change. The winners in this next chapter of startups won’t just use AI to make things faster or cheaper, they’ll leverage it to make their businesses safer, more reliable and adaptive to a changing world. Matt Blumberg is the CEO of Markup AI and has more than 30 years of leadership in scaling global disruptive technology businesses. Before launching Markup AI, he successfully launched and led brands and companies including Acrolinx, MovieFone division of 777-FILM (acquired by AOL), Return Path (No. 2 on Fortune Magazine’s “Best Companies to Work for” list and later acquired by PSG/Validity), the nonprofit Path Forward, and Bolster, a disruptive platform for executive search in the tech industry. Illustration: Dom Guzman
Startup Funding Heats Up In October, With Billion-Dollar Rounds To Reflection, Polymarket, Crusoe And Base Power
Nine startups each raised $500 million or more last month, making October the second-busiest month in the past two years for such enormous funding deals. The busiest? That title goes to September, highlighting the extent to which startup investment deals of a half-trillion or more have become normalized in just the past few months. All told, venture investors poured $39 billion globally into early- and late-stage startups in October, Crunchbase data shows. Funding was up from $34 billion a year ago, though down from $51 billion month over month. In a rare occurrence, startups outside of Silicon Valley led the largest funding deals last month, Crunchbase data shows. Funding to New York-based startups surged by more than 200% from a year ago. The largest two venture rounds last month of $2 billion each went to New York-based companies: coding agent Reflection.ai, in an Nvidia-backed round, and trading prediction market Polymarket, in a deal led by NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange. Other large rounds were also raised by companies outside of Silicon Valley. Denver-based AI data center Crusoe Energy Systems raised the third-largest round, a $1.4 billion deal led by Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. Austin-based battery energy provider Base Power raised $1 billion led by private equity firm Addition, and Finland-based health and wellness ring tracker Oura raised a $900 million round led by Fidelity. In September by contrast, the largest rounds were raised by foundation model companies Anthropic ($13 billion), Mistral AI ($2 billion) and AI chip company Cerebras Systems ($1.1 billion). China and India were up The U.S. continued to dominate and led with 60% of global funding. China, the second-largest funding market, gained more than 200% year over year in October with $3.9 billion invested into its startups. The U.K., the third-largest market, was flat year over year at $1.7 billion. India rounded out the top four markets with $1.5 billion raised — up 80% from a year earlier. In the U.S., California-based companies raised $8.5 billion in October, while startups in New York state raised $5.9 billion, and Massachusetts-based companies landed $1.9 billion last month. Crypto, energy increased AI again dominated startup funding last month, with 38% of investment going to the sector, up 9% year over year but down from September totals. Healthcare and biotech was the second-largest sector with $8.6 billion. The third-largest sector, financial services companies, raised $7.6 billion. Industries that trended up significantly year over year were blockchain and crypto, energy, and funding to developer tools. Valuations heat up The Crunchbase Unicorn Board added hundreds of billions in value in October as OpenAI sold employee shares in a secondary sale valuing the company at $500 billion. An uptick in newly valued decacorn companies seen in September, continued into October, albeit at a slower pace. The IPO markets have opened up since Q2. However, the largest tech IPO in October, travel expense management company Navan, closed at $20, down 20%, on its first day of trading in contrast to many of the larger tech IPOs this year that closed well above the list price on going public. Methodology The data contained in this report comes directly from Crunchbase, and is based on reported data. Data reported is as of Nov. 3, 2025. Note that data lags are most pronounced at the earliest stages of venture activity, with seed funding amounts increasing significantly after the end of a quarter/year. Please note that all funding values are given in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. Crunchbase converts foreign currencies to U.S. dollars at the prevailing spot rate from the date funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs and other financial events are reported. Even if those events were added to Crunchbase long after the event was announced, foreign currency transactions are converted at the historic spot price. Glossary of funding terms Seed and angel consists of seed, pre-seed and angel rounds. Crunchbase also includes venture rounds of unknown series, equity crowdfunding and convertible notes at $3 million (USD or as-converted USD equivalent) or less. Early-stage consists of Series A and Series B rounds, as well as other round types. Crunchbase includes venture rounds of unknown series, corporate venture and other rounds above $3 million, and those less than or equal to $15 million. Late-stage consists of Series C, Series D, Series E and later-lettered venture rounds following the “Series [Letter]” naming convention. Also included are venture rounds of unknown series, corporate venture and other rounds above $15 million. Corporate rounds are only included if a company has raised an equity funding at seed through a venture series funding round. Technology growth is a private-equity round raised by a company that has previously raised a “venture” round. (So basically, any round from the previously defined stages.) Related reading: Illustration: Dom Guzman
Aerial Robotics Startup Infravision Raises $91M Series B As Funding To Sector Surges
Infravision, a company that aims to transform how power lines are built and maintained with aerial robotics, has raised $91 million in Series B funding. Singapore’s GIC led the financing, which also included participation from Activate Capital Partners, Hitachi Ventures, and existing backer Energy Impact Partners. The round brings Austin, Texas-based Infravision’s total raised to just under $115 million since its 2018 inception, per Crunchbase data. Its valuation was not disclosed. The company raised $23 million in a Series A round led by Energy Impact Partners in September 2023. Infravision claims that its “flexible and automated approach” eliminates many of the contingencies and hazards inherent in conventional power line stringing methods. As a result, projects can be completed faster and more cost-effectively, the company says. Overall, startups developing robotics technologies have raked in just over $10.3 billion in 2025, according to Crunchbase data. With nearly two months left in the year, this amount is already 36% higher than the $7.54 billion raised by startups in the sector in all of 2024. While humanoid robotics startups generate the most attention, the largest funding recipients are a more diverse cohort, including surgical robotics, operating systems and manufacturing automation. They’re a geographically dispersed group as well, spanning the U.S., Europe and China. Preparing for the demand surge Infravision says it will use the new capital to accelerate the deployment of its TX System – an integrated combination of drones, intelligent ground equipment, and stringing hardware. It also plans to hire “aggressively,” according to Cameron Van Der Berg, co-founder and CEO of Infravision. He expects that the company will have between 150 to 200 employees by year end. The aerial robotics system has been used in power line projects around the world, including Powerlink Genex in Australia and emergency response deployments with PG&E in California, said Van Der Berg, in a release. PG&E is its biggest U.S. customer, Van Der Berg — a robotics engineer by background — told Crunchbase News via email. “Infravision’s core technology is an integrated system of four key sub-components that automate grid construction,” he added. “ It’s the system, not a drone alone, that delivers helicopter-class performance at an industrial scale for some of the largest and longest transmission projects in the world.” Infravision operates a B2B revenue model, focusing on utilities, contractors and developers as its key buyers. The company aims to form long-term, strategic partnerships with these customers where it leases equipment and provides services. “This investment will help us scale to provide a faster, safer, and more cost-effective way to meet surging electricity demand as the world races to double grid infrastructure by 2040,” he added. “With Australia established as a proven market, Infravision is now focused on expanding its North American operations.” Related Crunchbase queries: Related reading: Illustration: Dom Guzman
In The Space Of Months, AI Funding Boom Adds More Than $500B In Value To Unicorn Board And Reshuffles Top 20
The Crunchbase Unicorn Board crested $6 trillion in total value for the first time in August 2025. It only took around 18 months to get there after hitting the $5 trillion mark. Within a few months of the August milestone, the board added another half-trillion-plus in value, an unprecedented increase, even when compared to the peak market of 2021 and early 2022. The rapid acceleration in unicorn values highlights the remarkable pace at which the AI sector is driving up revenue — and, in turn, valuations. Much of the valuation surge on the board — which lists private companies valued at $1 billion or more — was driven by frontier model companies adding hundreds of billions in value, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. Notably, there was also an uptick in companies that reached decacorn valuations for the first time and notched significant jumps in value over their previous marks. Reshuffling of the top 20 These valuation hikes were most noticeable in the 20 most highly valued companies on the Unicorn Board, which has undergone a major reshuffling at the top. OpenAI added $200 billion in the space of six months in early October after adding $143 billion in the prior six months. With a $500 billion valuation, the San Francisco-based startup is now the most highly valued company on the board, after it leapfrogged SpaceX for the No. 1 spot. SpaceX itself added $50 billion to its value in September, taking the Hawthorne, California-based company’s valuation to $400 billion. Anthropic, the fourth most highly valued unicorn after SpaceX and ByteDance, added $121.5 billion in value in the space of six months, valuing the San Francisco-based company at $183 billion as of September. Meanwhile, Databricks, another San Francisco-based company, added $38 billion in value within nine months, placing the company sixth on the board with a valuation of $100 billion. That ranks it just below China’s Ant Group, which was valued at $150 billion in 2018. Sydney-based design software maker Canva added $10 billion in value in August in an employee share sale led by Fidelity that valued the company at $42 billion. New decacorns Eleven companies have already joined the decacorn club in H2 so far — outpacing the half-year counts we’ve seen since H2 2022. Of the 11 new decacorns, the company that increased its value by the largest percentage was humanoid robotics company Figure. The San Jose, California-based startup catapulted into the top 20 with a $1 billion funding at a post money valuation of $39 billion. That was up from its March 2024 valuation of $2.7 billion — marking a more than 1,300% increase in 18 months. The funding was led by New York-based Parkway Venture Capital, which also led Figure’s Series A funding in 2023. The company is building out humanoid robots for home and commercial work, and is investing in manufacturing and training its own AI model. Another unicorn that posted a big valuation surge is cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, which raised $500 million at a $15 billion valuation in September. The San Francisco-based company was last valued in 2019 at $4 billion. Many of these newly minted decacorns’ ratcheted up by more than $5 billion in less than a year. Along with Figure and Kraken, the following are other new decacorns that have emerged just since the start of the second half of 2025: In Q2, five companies joined the $10 billion-plus club. They include Applied Intuition, Helsing, Perplexity, Thinking Machines Lab and Safe Super Intelligence. (Perplexity has since raised multiple rounds to reach a value of $20 billion.) Markets heat up While the frontier AI labs are seeing the largest valuation increases, there are a greater number of companies this year joining the decacorn club, second only to counts seen in 2021. We find 82 private companies in the decacorn club as of October 2025 with more than a third that raised funding in 2025 to date. This pick-up in higher counts of new decacorns could be an indicator that the IPO markets warm up in 2026. Related reading: Illustration: Dom Guzman
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Fintech And E-Commerce In The Lead
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 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 rounds here. The week’s largest funding rounds confirmed that we’re still very much in the AI era. This included the biggest deal, a $350 million Series C for AI hiring startup Mercor, along with good-sized financings for legal tech unicorn Harvey, shopping platform Whatnot, and email security provider Sublime Security. 1. Mercor, $350M, AI hiring: San Francisco-based Mercor, a provider of AI-enabled tools for hiring, secured $350 million in Series C funding at a $10 billion valuation. Felicis 1 led the financing, which included participation by Robinhood Ventures, General Catalyst and Benchmark. 2. (tied) SavvyMoney, $225M, fintech: SavvyMoney, which offers tools for financial services providers to embed features like credit scores and personalized offers into their consumer offerings, announced a $225 million investment co-led by PSG Equity and Canapi Ventures. Founded in 2009, the Dublin, California, company currently works with more than 1,500 financial institution customers. 2. (tied) Whatnot, $225M, e-commerce: Whatnot, a live shopping platform and marketplace, has closed a $225 million Series F round, more than doubling its valuation to $11.5 billion in less than 10 months. DST Global and CapitalG co-led the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to about $968 million since its 2019 inception. 4. (tied) Sublime Security, $150M, cybersecurity: Sublime Security, a developer of agentic AI tools for email security, raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Georgian. The financing brings total funding to date for the 6-year-old Washington, D.C.-based company to around $240 million, per Crunchbase data. 4. (tied) Harvey, $150M, legal tech: Harvey, developer of an AI-enabled platform for legal professionals, closed on a fresh $150 million, bringing total reported funding to date to $1 billion. Andreessen Horowitz led the latest round, which reportedly set an $8 billion valuation for the 3-year-old, San Francisco-based company. 6. (tied) Human Interest, $100M, finance: Human Interest, a San Francisco-based startup that helps small businesses offer 401(k) plans to their employees, raised more than $100 million at a $3 billion valuation, Axios reports. That valuation is up from the $1.3 billion the company was last valued at in 2024. Previous investors Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Marshall Wace, Morgan Stanley and TPG again backed the company. 6. (tied) Substrate, $100M, semiconductors: Substrate, a San Francisco-based startup seeking to build semiconductor factories with new laser-based technology, raised $100 million from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, IQT and others. 8. Zag Bio, $80M, biotech: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Zag Bio, a developer of thymus-targeted medicines, announced its public launch with $80 million in financing, including a recently closed Series A round. Polaris Partners founded and incubated the startup and co-led the Series A financing with the JDRF T1D Fund. 9. ConductorOne, $79M, identity security: ConductorOne, an identity security startup building an AI platform geared for human, non-human and AI identities, landed $79 million in a Series B financing led by Greycroft. The 4-year-old Portland, Oregon-based company says it saw 400% revenue growth last year. 10. Blueprint, $60M, personal care: Blueprint, a Los Angeles-based brand that markets supplements, skin and hair care products, and foods geared to promote well-being and longevity, raised $60 million from a long list of venture and celebrity investors including Paris Hilton, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Logan Paul. Methodology We tracked the largest announced rounds in the Crunchbase database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the period of Oct. 25-31. Although most announced rounds are represented in the database, there could be a small time lag as some rounds are reported late in the week. Illustration: Dom Guzman