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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

Median valuations for early-stage valuations tripled from around $20m pre-money valuations to $60m with plenty of deals being prices above $100m. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas.

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How Covid-19 Has Impacted VC Portfolios

View from Seed

Some early stage businesses may even be able to get to CFBE fairly quickly. Mid-stage portfolios can be more acutely impacted if many companies have fat cost structures and were investing heavily in growth that is not materializing. Other companies are great businesses, but are effectively encountering a dilution event.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). This could mean that everything is going to be ok, as Tim Urban explained.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). This could mean that everything is going to be ok, as Tim Urban explained.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). This could mean that everything is going to be ok, as Tim Urban explained.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. I genuinely believe that the next 24-36 months will be a great vintage to invest in early stage.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. Photo by takatuka.

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