Venture's Q2 was calm (and that's not good)

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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So, what happened in venture capital-land during Q2 2023? A lot, and not very much. We got PitchBook venture guru Kyle Stanford to come back on the podcast to riff with us on the good, the bad, and the late-stage. Here's what we got into: How did American venture perform in Q2 2023? Welcome to the new normal, and why that's actually bad news. How are Seed deals faring, and what about later-stage transactions? How bad is the slow pace of exits today, and what impact will they have on venture capital fundraising itself? More on the topic here. And, any green shoots popping up? Here's a rundown of what could be considered good news. You can read the underlying dataset we were riffing on here, and we are back on Friday with the news roundup! Chat soon! 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 where we
0:16.0	unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex Wilhelm
0:20.0	and this is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single person or topic
0:23.6	think about what's going on and unpack the rest. Today we are once again chatting
0:27.3	with Kyle Stanford, lead venture capital research analyst at Pitchbook covering the US
0:31.9	venture capital market. Kyle welcome back to the show analyst at Pitchbook covering the US Venture Capital Market.
0:33.2	Kyle, welcome back to the show.
0:35.2	What shall we talk about today?
0:36.2	Yeah, first of all, thanks for having me back.
0:38.2	What should we talk about today?
0:39.5	I don't know.
0:41.0	What does anyone want to talk about these days kava IPO because that's the only
0:44.3	thing that's happened in the exit market I don't know FTC and all the antitrust
0:47.3	stuff like that's obviously having some problems with VC I we can we can do how
0:51.6	how doomed you want to be versus how optimistic.
0:54.0	Man, I mean, I was going to take that an entirely different direction.
0:56.7	I was thinking like the U.S. women's national team starts the World Cup on Friday.
1:00.9	We got the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend.
1:03.4	It's going to be a kick-ass weekend for sports, but I think probably, given that it's us and this show,
1:08.3	we should talk about, you know, venture capital.
1:10.3	Sure, sure, sure.
1:11.5	Anyways, well, jokes is like, we have you back on because Q2 data has just dropped.
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