Q1 venture capital review, Twitter breaks, BeReal's new take on social & more | E1437
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
All-news show. First, we go over PitchBook’s Q1 Venture Monitor report where VC fundraising is high, but portfolio exits are down (3:08). Then, we discuss how the incoming CNN CEO Chris Licht and Chris Sacca are both taking a Twitter break (33:35), and touch on Alex Jones' InfoWars filing for bankruptcy (44:33). Our startup of the day is new social app BeReal (53:55).
(00:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s news stories
(03:08) PitchBook and the NVCA released Q1 2022 Venture Monitor, results are staggering
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(13:49) Q1 US VC funds raised combined $73.8B, more than half of 2021’s total of $131.5B
(23:13) Microsoft for Startups Hub - Apply in 5 minutes, no funding required, sign up at http://aka.ms/thisweekinstartups
(24:30) Investing in supercycles
(32:23) Wealthfront - Get your first $5,000 managed for free, for life at https://wealthfront.com/TWIST
(33:35) Twitter breaks
(44:33) Alex Jones’ InfoWars filed for bankruptcy
(53:55) Startup of the day: BeReal
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, hey, everybody, happy Monday. |
| 0:02.8 | Got an all new show for you today. |
| 0:05.4 | How's your weekend moment? |
| 0:06.6 | It was good, right? |
| 0:07.5 | Happy Easter and Passover, everybody. |
| 0:09.7 | It was a nice holiday weekend full of fun and flowers |
| 0:12.9 | and evidently it's snowing in a lot of states. |
| 0:14.7 | So, sorry, everyone, sorry. |
| 0:16.5 | What's spring here? |
| 0:17.8 | We're excited to back and it's spring here. |
| 0:20.5 | And actually, we're starting off with, |
| 0:21.9 | we're being true to our startup DNA here. |
| 0:25.6 | We're gonna actually start off |
| 0:26.9 | by going over some fascinating numbers |
| 0:28.5 | from Pitch Books, Q1 Venture Monitor Report. |
| 0:32.0 | TLDR fundraising is high, but exits are down big time. |
| 0:36.5 | A lot of conflicting data. |
| 0:38.4 | We're gonna sort it all out |
| 0:39.4 | and try to make sense of it both for capital allocators, |
| 0:42.0 | but most importantly for founders out there |
| 0:43.8 | who are wondering what their next funding round |
| 0:45.5 | is gonna be like. |
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