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Carta data shows median seed rounds reaching $45 million valuations
“And even the 75th percentile or 50th percentile, we're talking about like forty-five million dollar seed rounds, which is insane.”
Brit Morin Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 36:41 Allbirds Pivoted to AI Data Centers | SpaceX $1.5T IPO, Anthropic $800B, $175M Seed Rounds
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Brit Morin: Seed-to-Series A graduation rates halved from 30.6% to 15%
“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.”
Brit Morin Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 19:50 #61: The Venture Capital Reset Era · More or Less Podcast
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Lessin: Carta Report Shows Venture Funds Failing to Return Capital to LPs
“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…”
Jessica Lessin Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 14:41 #61: The Venture Capital Reset Era · More or Less Podcast
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Brit Morin: Carta startup shutdowns jumped from 170 to 212 in Q3 2023
“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.”
Brit Morin Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 4:44 #17: How to Save Your Startup, Twitter/X, Threads (and Swift’s Stunt Romance) · More or Less Podcast
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