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📊 Quick update on American venture capital activity in May! Crunchbase just dropped some fresh stats. 🚀 Big names are back on top, but deal numbers are a bit down from previous years. Andreessen Horowitz leads with 10 deals, followed by General Catalyst with 8. Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and Alumni Ventures each made 7 deals. 📉 Interesting note: a few years ago, you'd need at least 12 deals to be top dog. Check out the full scoop here: [Crunchbase Article](https://lnkd.in/gTdV7eMa) #VentureCapital #StartupLife

🚨 We are one week away from our chat with David Kestenbaum, a remarkable investor and entrepreneur whose journey has taken him from building a $1 billion e-commerce business for AB InBev to co-founding a groundbreaking precision agriculture startup that just raised a $7M Seed Round led by Main Sequence and Horizons Ventures. Investing & company building is at the core of David's expertise, and he'll shed light on his corporate venture experience, on how he’s building his angel investing portfolio, and advice to new angel investors. This conversation will be moderated by Ileana Gonzalez, CEO of Tech Bloc. Find the link to RSVP in the comments 👇

37% of priced seed rounds in Q4 2023 were bridge rounds. In today’s venture climate, Julia Gudish Krieger of Pari Passu Venture Partners, an early-stage firm focused on SaaS and commerce enablement sectors, advises: "Don’t worry about getting cute on valuation. Focus on bringing in real runway and excellent partners who can help you weather any storms ahead.” Calculus for raising extension or bridge rounds has changed amid the current venture landscape. Deal counts and valuations have both declined at nearly every startup stage. In this environment, the attitude toward extension rounds is more positive. Dive into more of the data behind this shift: https://lnkd.in/gu2iNA34

🌟Exciting Update! 🚀 🔮Prediction: The fundraising landscape for emerging managers is set to become more promising in the near future, with success stories like Katie Jacobs Stanton's experience at Moxxie Ventures paving the way for more opportunities and support. 🌟General commentary: - Stanton's ease in raising funds for her third round indicates a positive shift in investor sentiment towards emerging managers. - Her success story serves as a beacon of hope for other VC firms navigating the challenging fundraising environment. - This trend could potentially encourage more investors to support and invest in early-stage VCs, driving innovation and growth in the startup ecosystem. 🔍 Let's keep an eye on the evolving landscape and watch out for more success stories like Moxxie Ventures in the coming months! Exciting times ahead for emerging managers and the startup community. 🚀✨ #FundingSuccess #StartupEcosystem #VCs #InnovationGalore

So often we praise startup founders for locking in a16z, Sequoia, and other big name firms. But what we fail to praise are the funding rounds made up of strategic angels and smart capital that propel the business forward without the detrimental reliance on big 💸💸💸 checks to save them. Founders doing it right, in my humble opinion... - Olamide Olowe, Founder of Topicals Sealed the deal with culturally aligned VC firms like Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners for their seed and Series A rounds - yasmin sewell, Founder of Vyrao Leveraged her network of powerful female angel investors to close an early-stage round led by Estée Lauder - Erin Johnson Gore, Founder of Garden Society Secured a $7M Series A with an oversubscribed syndicate of all-female angel investors, one-third of whom were women of color - Quani B., Founder of Soft Rows Obtaining capital from accelerators aligned with her long-term goals, even at the pre-launch stage Tagging in the comments even more founders doing it right! + add yours! #venturecapital #angelinvestor #blackvc #femalefounders

We asked our Head of Investors, Konrad, who are * the * must-meet funds at Slush 2024? This is what he told us. Biggest names? Climate tech? Deep tech? Seed stage? We’ve got it all laid out for you. Tagged ‘em below for even easier browsing. You’re welcome. Biggest names—Sequoia Capital, Accel, Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Climate tech investors—Lightrock, Planet A Ventures, Voyager Ventures, Pale Blue Dot Deep tech investors—Fifty Years, Transition, Lux Capital Growth-stage investors—IVP, TCV, Insight Ventures, Goldman Sachs Series A investors—Ribbit Capital, Khosla Ventures, FirstMark, Forerunner Seed investors—Pear VC, Founder Collective, Seedcamp, Cherry Ventures Emerging managers—Dig Ventures , Plural, Moonfire

If you want to get perspectives on the current state of early stage venture investing, join me and a panel of other investors as we give our take and provide perspectives and tips for founders looking to raise. https://lnkd.in/dFbbEJDM

🚀Lets buy discounted start ups 🤑 Yesterday I was listening to the All-in podcast and Chamath was talking about megafunds on deploying capital eventhough the lanscape is turbulent and unsual. He mentioned that deploying capital is the only way of optimizing for fees and getting closer to rise a new fund. 💰Now this is a great example that in order to create value and money to return the investment to LPs, funds are going to the secondary market to deploy capital to underserved Startups and over allocated private equity funds 💸 Even though markets always find the way to regulate themselves and great fund managers approach the investment landscape thoroughly. There are companies like Carta which are set to shut down its secondary market for private securities, all because they have failed to keep the trust of their users as their priority 🪨

2023 was a great year for LINK 🔗, with revenue soaring 3X, the addition of new services such as onboarding and migration as a service, new partnerships, and the growth of our team to 60 members across 6 global offices. But what is in store for 2024? Check out some of our plans and vision 👇 #payments #POS #integration #datamigration Mucker Capital |  Menlo Ventures | Pitbull Ventures |  Incisive Ventures| Alchemist Accelerator| Berkeley SkyDeck | Expert Dojo

Exciting news for Punch! The innovative stock-broking platform has successfully raised $7 million in seed funding from top investors, including Stellaris Venture Partners, Susquehanna Asia VC, and angel investors like Kunal Shah and Vatsal Singhal. The funds will drive R&D and marketing efforts to enhance user experience and expand offerings. Founded in 2022, Punch is focused on young, part-time traders and plans to introduce cash trading next month. Despite regulatory challenges, Punch is committed to promoting responsible trading practices and revolutionizing the stock trading experience. Stay tuned for more updates! Amit Dhakad, Hiral Jain, Arshad Fahoum and Ajit Dandekar #Fintech #StockTrading #Startup #Investment #Punch