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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? What is a VC To Do? super size or super focus.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. My first ever investment as a VC was Invoca. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all.

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Six tips for SaaS founders who don’t want VC money

TechCrunch

Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. But what if you don’t have unicorn dreams – or you don’t want to pursue VC money? Bootstrapping a SaaS company is not only possible – I believe it’s a saner, more sustainable way to build and scale a business. startups are backed by VCs.

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Q1 VC results tread water, but that’s cold comfort for SaaS unicorns

TechCrunch

That said, the results of our preliminary analysis underscore how far venture activity has fallen from year-ago totals and just how brutal the venture capital market appears for late-stage startups. Q1 VC results tread water, but that’s cold comfort for SaaS unicorns by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

billion of total venture capital. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. Construct Capital , co-founded by Dayna Grayson previously at NEA and Rachel Holt, a past Uber executive.

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Venture capital funding may have slowed, but VC firms have no problems raising new funds

TechCrunch

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn? Lorena Suarez, one of the managing partners of Argentina-based Alaya Capital , a 10-year-old early-stage VC firm, invests in impact-driven startups from Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders

TechCrunch

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. It’s working with another Indy based VC firm, Allos Ventures , and Paul Ehlinger from Allos will be a venture partner at Sixty8. So that is why we launched Sixty8.

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