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Lemkin: 50% of Unicorn Capital Goes to $5B+ Companies
“Crunchbase did an article this week. There's no such thing as unicorns anymore, because forget about AI. Only the money goes to five billion and up. It's got to be five billion corns. Like, 50% of all the unicorn money is north of five billion.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 1:06:51 Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Female Founders Fund pioneered tracking female founder Series A funding data
“We published an annual review on the amount of series A funding that went to female founders in 2014. And, you know, since then we've seen Crunchbase, TechCrunch, and a host of other journalists in the tech industry really follow suit in terms of recognizing t…”
Anu Duggal Dec 10, 2018 ▶ 18:14 20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
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Rotman: Only 2% to 4% of venture-backed startups go public
“If you go back the past 20 years or so, it's a single digit number, right? And in fact, for some vintages, that number is two percent, for some it's three, some it's four. But it's not eight percent or 10% of companies end up becoming public companies.”
Frank Rotman Aug 11, 2023 ▶ 24:20 DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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