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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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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.

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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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Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020

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As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020. The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly data regarding the North American , European and Asian venture capital markets , along with data on particular startup categories.

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Sectors where New Zealand startups are poised to win

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As a remote island nation in the middle of the South Pacific, New Zealand is experiencing the stirrings of a burgeoning startup scene. The country has historically been capital-starved, but recent investments from the government and foreign investors have significantly increased access to early-stage venture capital funding.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

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It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

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Brooklyn Bridge Ventures came in first, with a whopping 61%. Lerer Ventures was second, with just under 20%. Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine. Why so many mixed teams?

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