How can venture capital survive a three-year liquidity drop?

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🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is our interview show, where we sit down with an interesting, knowledgeable guest and dive deep into their favorite topics. For this weekend’s Special Equity Edition, we invited Gené Teare to come back on the podcast. Longtime listeners will recall that we’ve had Gené on a time or two to chat venture capital data with us, and she’s back to do the same this week! We’re back to dig into Q4 2023 venture capital results and what’s coming up this year. For backing data, here’s Gené’s Crunchbase News author archive, and here are a few posts that I have put out on the same set of topics. On the show we looked into stages, sectors — including both AI and web3 — and where we are seeing both weakness and strength. Gené was a treat to have on the show, and we’ll have her back this year as 2024 comes into sharper focus. Equity is back on Monday, so see you in a couple days! For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders and more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups
0:16.0	where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is
0:19.8	Alex and this is our interview show where we sit down with a guest think about their work and
0:24.0	unpack the rest. Today however not really a guest more of a friend. We are once again speaking with
0:29.6	Jeanne Tier, Senior Data Editor at Crunchbased News, my old corporate and writing home.
0:34.6	Jeanne, welcome back to the show.
0:36.1	Thank you, Alex, it's great to be here and lovely to see you in the New Year.
0:40.0	I know. New Year, New Us, even though we looked just like we did last year although I can say
0:45.1	where I live is finally catching up on a couple years of not snowing so I am
0:48.7	freezing cold and very jealous and you out in California where I should be.
0:53.0	Well, it even feels cold to me here, so.
0:56.0	Don't even tell me what temperature does because I'll scream.
0:59.0	All right, on the show today, if you've heard Jeanne on the pod before,
1:02.0	you know what we're going to get up to.
1:03.7	We're talking about the end of 2023 as a venture capital year, data points from around the world,
1:09.7	a couple of key sectors, what's going on in the stages, and then as we wrap up I have pulled some new
1:15.0	hot piping crunch-based data for us to chew on to get an early look at what's going on in
1:19.4	Q1, 2024. So, Jenet, not that I think we relish the role of being the bears of bad news, but
1:29.4	Crunshbase wrote that 2023 was on pace to be the lowest year for venture funding since 2018,
1:36.0	which was further back than I anticipated.
1:38.0	So I'm kind of curious as a starting point,
1:40.0	did that result surprise you,
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