Why VC funding is drying up

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Topher Forhecz

Markets, Investing, News, Banking, Finance, Business, Business News, Crypto

4.4 • 350 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Venture capital fundraising hit a record-high last year. There were more deals, and more money poured into startups last year than at any other time in history. Now, the FT’s Richard Waters says the fundraising bonanza is over. On this week’s episode, we explore what that means for the future of startups.

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For further reading:

Venture capital’s silent crash: when the tech boom met reality

Klarna’s valuation crashes to under $7bn in tough funding round

Venture capital’s delayed rendezvous with reality

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0:29.8	Over the last several years, venture capital investing has been on a tear.
0:37.0	I think just a couple of numbers, you know, tell this story.
0:41.0	In 2021, $330 billion poured into US venture capital.
0:48.0	Now that's twice as much as the year before, which itself was twice as much as three years before.
0:54.4	That's the F.T's West Coast editor Richard Waters.
0:58.0	He says that pretty much everyone wanted a piece of the action.
1:02.8	It wasn't just traditional venture capital firms,
1:05.9	it was hedge funds, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds,
1:10.2	mutual funds, everybody piled into the market at the top.
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