When looking at how TechCrunch+ covered venture in 2022, we didn’t see a lot of positive news. We saw layoffs, demands for growth at all costs, VCs sitting on mountains of cash and low funding for minority groups — again. While some of these things may seem contradictory, that’s what VCs thrive on.
Let’s get into our top TechCrunch+ venture stories of 2022:
The power pendulum is swinging back to employers, isn’t it?
Layoffs swept through the tech industry all year long.
Natasha Mascarenhas spoke with Nolan Church, who helped lead Carta’s 2020 layoffs as its chief people officer. However, we’re going to see more layoffs in the new year. Church “estimates that another 30,000 to 40,000 tech employees around the world will be laid off in Q1 2023 — a number that follows the more than 100,000 layoffs so far in 2022, according to layoffs.fyi data,” Natasha reported.
Yeah, no, most VCs still don’t really care about your path to profitability
In 2021, startups were d …
