Carta

“We have seen an enormous amount of startups that either went bankrupt or dissolved or otherwise shut down in Q three of 23. It went from a 170 in Q two to 212 in Q three.”

“They're going to wait two to three years until everyone forgets. And then they'll do it again. This is not over. They're just going to wait two to three years.”

“In 2018, there were 30.6% of companies that raised a seed round and then made it through series A within two years. Now that's only 15% in the last two years.”

“Like this Carta report is kind of content marketing nonsense because these funds are just too young to have any meaningful metrics or DPI in the first place.”

“CARTA, the company that helps people track their cap tables and has other sorts of data and occasionally gets in trouble, but that is a topic for another day. Released a really interesting report that basically said venture capital funds are not returning mon…”

“Now the top five percent of seed rounds are topping a hundred and seventy five million dollar valuations.”

“The top 10% of startup valuations for Series D, C, B, et cetera, are now like 200 to 300% higher than 20 21.”

“And even the 75th percentile or 50th percentile, we're talking about like forty-five million dollar seed rounds, which is insane.”