Anna Heim
The pace at which venture capitalists are deploying funding across the globe slowed yet again in April.
Venture capital dollar volume, as tracked by Crunchbase News in a new report, peaked in November 2021. Since that apogee, the value of venture investments has ticked lower in most months before...
This year’s global deceleration of the venture capital market is broad, impacting most startup ecosystems, sectors, and stages. If you are building a company in 2022, you should not expect to see the same frenetic interest in your project that you might have enjoyed last year. Things have...
Asia had more IPOs than other regions in Q1 2022, but its tally dropped from Q4 2021
Sometime in 2021, the world passed the 1,000-unicorn milestone. This was captured by Crunchbase’s private unicorn board, which is dedicated to tracking startups with valuations above $1 billion; the list kept on...
Carta data shows breadth of slowdown, and early-stage startups are hardly immune
Alex Wilhelm
Anna Heim
7 hours
The comedown from venture capital’s torrid 2021 is sparing few startups.
New data from Carta, a provider of shareholder management services to private companies, indicates that the slowdown in venture capital activity is not constrained...
From mega-rounds to early-stage deals, Europe had a strong start to the year
VC funding into Europe (including the U.K.) was up in the first quarter of 2022, CB Insights and Crunchbase data show. In other words, the region escaped the global quarter-on-quarter slowdown in startup investment.
But Europe isn’t...
With lots of dry powder and growth reservoirs, 2022 might resist global trend
Could African tech be immune to the global funding slowdown? It sounds like a counterintuitive question to ask. “Africa, being home to several economies largely based on the export of natural resources, has historically been the...
A survey of Y Combinator companies makes it clear that the fintech subsector is far from dead
Alex Wilhelm
Anna Heim
8 hours
Given the recent run of concerned headlines that insurtech companies have generated, you’d be forgiven for anticipating that the startup category would find itself in dire straits. Not a...
The city has tripled the portion of seed and angel dollars flowing to underrepresented founders
Alex Wilhelm
Anna Heim
8 hours
For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data —...
Data indicate that the latest crypto boom could be entering a slower period
Alex Wilhelm
Anna Heim
19 hours
The market for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, may be slowing after NFT activity grew sharply in 2021 and into the new year.
The health of the NFT market is itself a fascinating data project....
After promising the move back in December, Intel announced yesterday that its Mobileye division has confidentially filed to go public. Intel bought the computer vision company focused on the self-driving sector back in 2017, before which it had been a public concern.
The move by Intel to free Mobileye...
