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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

We drew this conclusion after a meeting we had with Morgan Stanley where they showed us historical 15 & 20 year valuation trends and we all discussed what we thought this meant. But rest assured valuations get reset. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

Seed and pre-Seed investment levels and valuations remain healthy, there’s more talent in the market and less competition. Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Venture remains attractive but LPs have been burnt With a 11.5%

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. There are now 2.8B

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How are startup financings and M&A impacted by the pandemic? (through November 2020)

David Cohen

” with the goal of sharing the Techstars view of how things have been changing given the events of 2020. Here’s an update to that data through the end of October, 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. Total M&As YTD.

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How are startup financings and M&A impacted by the pandemic? (through Oct 2020)

David Cohen

” with the goal of sharing the Techstars view of how things have been changing given the events of 2020. Here’s an update to that data through the end of October, 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. Total M&As YTD.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Or is there a major disconnect between a portfolio’s valuations and the actual dollars returned to LPs? Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. How have more recent vintages performed?

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