The largest funding rounds raised by startups are becoming rarer and rarer. For upstart companies working on the future of energy, however, the market is surprisingly strong. The venture deceleration,
We're back to dig into Q4 2023 venture capital results and what's coming up this year.
We've witnessed an incredible unicorn stampede over the last 10 years.
The last quarter in venture capital was quite gloomy. Even AI didn't change the picture that much, but its impact is starting to show in other ways.
This week, Equity was joined by Gené Teare, a well-known analyst of the global venture capital market from Crunchbase and Crunchbase News.
The gist is that the prevailing pessimism in the air is wearing down these once-key pillars of venture volume.
It is estimated that less than 1% of all VC dollars are raised by companies with founders openly within the LGBTQ+ community.
The numbers aren't great, sure, but they're also not quite as bad as we feared heading into 2023 last year.
There was a brief, beautiful moment for a few months in 2021 when it felt like robotic investments might be immune from broader market forces. We all fundamentally and implicitly understood this to no
Many folks building or investing in blockchain-based assets and protocols have kept their chins up amid a series of crises. But what do the numbers tell us?
Siri, show me fintech companies, founded in the last two years, that haven’t raised over the past year but have grown headcount by 100% in the same time frame; and can it be founded by Stanford
Per Crunchbase data, the rate at which unicorns are being born has fallen nearly 80% from its peak, which was notably reached one year ago.
Getting a bunch of bananas and avocados from your favorite 15-minute grocery delivery company at 3 a.m. might be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but some of these companies are finding themselv
Is cybersecurity venture capital deal activity holding up better than other sectors this deep into Q3?
Provided that you have a memory longer than the average fish, there's nothing to be so scared about. Yet.
According to PitchBook, the median valuation of early-stage U.S. startups that raised venture capital was lower last quarter than in Q1 2022.
To really understand what’s going on with Latin American venture capital funding, we have to go deeper than the regional perspective can afford us.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann got together with Grace once agai
“In an economic downturn, the customers will be less willing to be experimental, so they're thinking about cutting costs and then economics just becomes so much more important.”
In both down times and boom times, businesses across industries are faced with the challenge of building sales pipelines and closing revenue. “Account-based” intelligence — i.e., res
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