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Back to news homeWhat if Scandinavian startups don’t need Y Combinator?
When The Exchange wrote about Sweden’s startup scene at the end of last month, we said we’d revisit the Nordics this week. Well, a promise is a promise. But after […]
Without the Stripe and OpenAI deals, global VC results would have been even worse in Q1 2023
Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter, we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and […]
‘There’s too much opportunity’ in Cerebral Valley
Evan Buhler moved to San Francisco’s Hayes Valley three months ago to build an AI company that would combine the buzzy technology and his experience as a startup attorney. At […]
Venture interest in Chinese companies remains muted after slow 2022
Welcome to the second quarter, friends. It’s time to take stock of just what went down in the first three months of the year, which means a deluge of venture […]
Do you need a deck to raise from VCs? Not always
How one founder raised from a16z without breaking open PowerPoint Haje Jan Kamps 21 hours For all the focus on pitch decks (and more than 80 articles on the topic), […]
A look at Sweden’s startup scene as Techstars drops Stockholm program
As the global venture capital market contracts following a historic investing boom, the downturn impacts each startup market differently. While we’ve given the United States’ startup ecosystem most of our […]
Emerging managers hope the new SVB offers the same support to new VCs
Before it crashed, Silicon Valley Bank was known to many startups and venture firms as the place to park their money or take out a capital line. But for emerging […]
To my infinite chagrin, we’re probably not getting tech IPOs until later this year
But there are reasons to be optimistic we’ll get a good crop of public offerings Alex Wilhelm 9 hours The IPO market thus far in 2023 has been a goose […]
CVCs remained consistent investors in 2022
Amid the venture industry’s funding slowdown in 2022, nontraditional investors like hedge funds and private equity firms ran for the hills. Many assumed that corporate venture capital funds would, too […]