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Even the hottest startup categories are not immune from the venture slowdown

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Upstart tech companies delivering their product or service via an API raised mammoth amounts of capital during the final year of the 2021-era startup boom. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. They also provided a slightly expanded dataset encompassing an even larger group of API-first startups at our request.

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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part V, featuring Ethan Kurzweil, Lily Lyman, Ashley Mayer, and Leshika Samarasinghe.

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I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. Also, because the feedback loop is very long, the advice we give founders – to move fast and iterate – is hard to put into practice as a venture investor.

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Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era

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Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. For many founders in the startup community, a “founder-friendly” investor is one who stays relatively hands off. More posts by this contributor. Factor in founder friendliness.

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Edtech’s venture-backed globalization pauses at China

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are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China , which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go nonprofit, have led to a chill among check-writers looking at the country. The success of Chinese edtech was used to predict the surge of U.S. Edtech investors based in the U.S.

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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

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As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today. billion valuation.

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Daily Crunch: AI content developer Jasper now valued at $1.5B following capital infusion

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Startups and VC. Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” according to Connie , and Will Ventures is here for it. Okay, fine, have a few more: Giving birth to a new startup : “She Matters” is the name and mission of a BIPOC-focused postpartum-care startup, Andrew reports.

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Yes, it’s become harder for startups to raise funding

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Today’s venture capital market feels strange because it isn’t uniform. While some companies are still able to raise mega-rounds , reach unicorn status , and even attract lots of new capital in sectors that have seen their exits struggle on the public markets, other startups are not having similar luck.