Rebecca Szkutak
This year will likely be a sore spot for venture returns. While we haven’t seen drastic down rounds or sensationalized startup shutdowns yet, if the market continues on its downward trend, it feels all but inevitable.
While some firms can shrug off a bad vintage or two — thank...
The hearing loss market has long been dominated by a handful of legacy players with little incentive to innovate due to outdated regulations and social stigma. But a new ruling from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could revolutionize the market by driving competition, giving startups a greater...
While cash from Uncle Sam may not be top of mind for startups, SBA loans can provide low-cost capital
What’s the difference between a startup and a small business? Semantics, mostly. As many startups find themselves struggling to raise funds from venture capitalists as financing continues to decline this...
It seems everything is doom and gloom in the U.S. venture market, between startup layoffs and declining venture deal counts to an essentially moribund exit environment. But there are bright spots, one of which being the Southeast region, which is on track for its best year yet.
The Southeast...
As venture funding continues to slow, founders are scrambling to extend their runways, regardless of how much cash they already have in the bank. But the startups that need the cash infusions the most are running into the most trouble.
Last week, I wrote about the current state of bridge...
VC firms are holding on to their checkbooks as the investment market slows to a crawl, but fund managers are taking advantage of the lull to fill up their coffers to the point of overflowing.
In the first half of 2022, U.S. venture capital firms raised a $121.5 billion,...
After the 2008 financial crisis, a new slate of regulations aimed at protecting consumers and businesses opened the floodgates for a surge of fintech companies to develop into household names over the last decade. Now, it might be healthcare’s turn.
Part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Consumer Reform and...
When Andrew Hines started Canvas Medical in 2015 he couldn’t have predicted that telehealth would go from niche to norm or that a pandemic would inspire entrepreneurs to launch a new fleet of digital health startups that needed fresh infrastructure. He just knew he wanted to build software...
Despite the venture capital asset class sitting on historic levels of dry powder, many investors aren’t deploying it, leaving their portfolio companies scrambling for financing.
Venture funding has been declining across the board this year, but the tone of how this temporary pullback could impact companies is starting to...
Ariana Thacker likes to say that science was her first love and startups were her second. Now, she gets to combine the two into a thesis for her new venture firm, Conscience VC.
Thacker’s passion for science started back when she was taking college-level chemistry courses in middle school....
