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The provided source material contains only a headline and a single sentence with no concrete figures, specific deals, individual companies, timeframes for the "boom," named venture capital firms, or verifiable context. The statement references "Crunchbase data" but offers no actual data points, percentages beyond the headline claim, funding amounts, or details about which companies or sectors benefited. Without substantive facts from the source material, a useful news brief cannot be constructed while adhering to the requirement of using only verified information from the supplied source.