The Changing Focus of Venture Capital Funding

Life sciences has overtaken software as the primary recipient of early-stage funding

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readAug 14, 2023

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For as long as I can remember, and I’ve been in the startup world since the 1990’s, venture capital has been nearly synonymous with software.

From the dotcom daze where money was thrown at even the stupidest ecommerce…

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