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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Air-Taxi Startup Wisk Hails $450M Round, Crypto Company FTX Nabs $400M

By Chris Metinko,
This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out 2022’s biggest funding rounds here.
Last week we wondered aloud what it meant when no company raised a round worth a quarter-billion dollars or more. Well, this week VCs seemed to make up for that by writing checks for five rounds to U.S.-based startups that topped that number. In actuality, there could have been six, but we are not including New York-based Fireblocks in this week’s listing despite the company announcing a $550 million Series E. We are leaving it out because we included that round last month, when news of the raise broke.
The other attention-getting aspect of this week’s...