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- The most active VC investors have not slowed down regardless of the marketIn COMMUNITY NEWSAugust 10, 2022Sounds like a cool concept, I’ll connect with you via DM and we can connect.2
- What’s Up With Serverless?In TOOLS + TRICKSNovember 15, 2022Curious, what are some of the limitations or disadvantages if any for going serverless?01
- How uncertainty has shaped different stages of US VC valuationsIn COMMUNITY NEWS·August 13, 2022US VC valuations have begun, in some ways, to mirror the broader market uncertainty, but certain stages and sectors have proved remarkably resilient, as some startups remain able to demonstrate their potential for value creation. Our Q2 2022 US VC Valuations Report, sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank, shows how investor sentiment has and hasn't changed over the past quarter, and what that may mean for deal sizes, liquidity, and more as the year goes on. Key takeaways Early-stage median pre-money valuations showed signs of contractions, recording their first quarter-over-quarter decline in more than two years, falling 16% in Q2 to $52 million. Seed-stage investment has held up better than any other stage, with deal counts and sizes remaining elevated and median pre-money valuations up 33% this year over 2021. Nontraditional investors have concentrated their more cautious behavior at the top end of the market. The top quartiles of deal size participation and valuation both fell by more than 13% in H1, but such declines aren't present at the medians. Only 10 public listings for companies valued over $1 billion were recorded through June 30, compared with more than 100 in 2021, as the public market climate continues to put pressure on exit valuations. This report was sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank. Download Report1033
- A16z leads $50M seed round in VeeFriendsIn COMMUNITY NEWSMarch 6, 2023😃10
- Are we in for a venture funding reset?In COMMUNITY NEWSJuly 16, 2022Thanks for sharing. Todays economic climate is difficult yet not unusual. This is an example of why startups should first focus being self sustainable versus fundraising for accelerated growth. If you do, the chances of riding out turbulent financial times are higher.10
- Start-Up Funding Falls the Most It Has Since 2019In COMMUNITY NEWS·August 13, 2022The drop was another fallout of rising inflation and widespread economic uncertainty, and a retreat after years of a funding boom. For the first time in three years, start-up funding is dropping. The numbers are stark. Investments in U.S. tech start-ups plunged 23 percent over the last three months, to $62.3 billion, the steepest fall since 2019, according to figures released on Thursday by PitchBook, which tracks young companies. Even worse, in the first six months of the year, start-up sales and initial public offerings — the primary ways these companies return cash to investors — plummeted 88 percent, to $49 billion, from a year ago. The declines are a rarity in the start-up ecosystem, which enjoyed more than a decade of outsize growth fueled by a booming economy, low interest rates and people using more and more technology, from smartphones to apps to artificial intelligence. That surge produced now-household names such as Airbnb and Instacart. Over the past decade, quarterly funding to high growth start-ups fell just seven times.But as rising interest rates, inflation and uncertainty stemming from the war in Ukraine have cast a pall over the global economy this year, young tech companies have gotten hit. And that foreshadows a difficult period for the tech industry, which relies on start-ups in Silicon Valley and beyond to provide the next big innovation and growth engine.“We’ve been in a long bull market,” said Kirsten Green, an investor with Forerunner Ventures, adding that the pullback was partly a reaction to that frenzied period of dealmaking, as well as to macroeconomic uncertainty. “What we’re doing right now is calming things down and cutting out some of the noise.”0010
- What’s Up With Serverless?In TOOLS + TRICKSNovember 16, 2022Cold boots for cloud functions can be slow, but only happen the first time, less than 1% of requests. You can schedule hits to keep them warm, and there are minimal edge runtimes that boot faster. Another issue is upstream vendor risk. For example, if you use Google Firebase, you have to trust Google not to shut the service down. For databases, I prefer FaunaDB because they support GraphQL, meaning that even if Fauna shuts down, it won’t be too hard to migrate to another service without breaking anything. These issues are far outweighed by the benefits.0
- A16z leads $50M seed round in VeeFriendsIn COMMUNITY NEWSJanuary 31, 2023Test successful0
- Will AI replace HI (human intelligence)?In COMMUNITY NEWSApril 17, 2023I don’t think. For example, the autopilot was invented decades of years ago and still some flights require a double cockpit crew (2 captains + 1 first officer). Would you take a flight that completely runs on autopilot?00
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