Alex Wilhelm
How are women faring amid the venture capital and startup slowdown? New data paints a somewhat uneven picture, albeit one that tilts toward the negative.
Startups are a global business, as is the work of backing them financially. This means that while we often observe aggregates — this dataset...
Temporary relief could come, structural exit issues notwithstanding
Are startups really in danger of suffering a protracted, painful slowdown?
With half the year now behind us, the gathering clouds for startups around the world don’t appear to have broken into storms, leaving us wondering if the market is really that...
I don’t know what is going on in the startup market and it’s a bit of a pain in the ass.
The larger American economy, home to the largest technology startup and venture capital markets in the world, could be in a recession right now. We don’t know. To...
The startup market is global in footprint, varied in focus, diverse in business model and constantly evolving. The venture capital market, meanwhile, is slower to molt, but it’s also changed in the last decade.
Startups and their financial backers went a bit nuts last year, raising too much money, often...
Why not put capital to work when it's actually worth something?
One easy complaint to make when it comes to venture capital is that it’s mostly not. Venture-ous, that is. It’s definitely capital.
During the last decade, for example, a huge portion of venture capital investment went into software-as-a-service companies,...
Happy Monday. It’s Independence Day here in the United States, which means that much of TechCrunch is on holiday. But as last week came to a close, several important pieces of data dropped that are worth our consideration. Let’s not let that opportunity pass, day off or not....
It may feel like it’s been a few years since OpenSea announced the funding round that pushed its valuation to the $13 billion mark. It was January.
At the time, this column dug into the company’s financial performance and came to a number of conclusions, primarily that the company...
Somehow June is over in just a few hours, meaning that we are trotting toward the third quarter’s starting line.
Leaving aside the uncomfortably rapid pace at which time is flying past us, entering a new financial reporting period is an excellent moment to pause, reflect and work out...
It’s not news that times have changed in the world of fintech. After financial technology startups saw their fortunes rise during the venture capital boom that loosely wrapped as 2021 came to a close, they’re now suffering from a slump of a similar scale.
The damage is not unidimensional....
Hello from America, where we are digesting some pretty big news. Given the portent and weight of what’s going on today, it may feel a bit weird to sit down and read about billions of dollars of someone else’s money. But this is a technology startup and financial...
