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Per PitchBook, YC is the leading investor in LLM agents, by all-time number of investments. In the trailing 12 months, there have been 156 deals in the space.

Q2 saw some green shoots for mobility tech as a sector, as VCs invested $6.7 billion in mobility tech, marking a 13.9% quarter-over-quarter increase in deal value, according to PitchBook.

In 2023, total VC deal activity in Japan shook out to $5.1 billion in value, across 1,213 deals, according to PitchBook.

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Legal tech firm Farewill has seen its valuation slashed by more than £50 million by one of its major shareholders, the Standard has learnt, amid growing signs European tech firms are struggling to hold on to the heady valuations they attracted during the height of the pandemic.

According to data from PitchBook, VC investments in crypto companies witnessed a staggering 68% drop in 2023 compared to the robust figures seen in 2022.

Many market intelligence researchers have become reliant on AI to do their jobs—it could be a sign of what's to come across the economy.

Valuations of European tech firms continued to decline in the third quarter, figures out today show, as start-ups battled for survival amid weaker consumer sentiment, scant venture capital investment and slower growth.

PitchBook data shows that seed and pre-seed fundraising have been resilient to the downturn.