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What 1,803 Funds Reveal
About the Future of VC
Funding
What’s Behind the 60% Surge
in Start-Up Failures?
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VC PULSE
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What 1,803
Funds Reveal
About the Future
of VC Funding
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The venture
capital landscape
has shifted
significantly
since interest
rates began rising
in early 2022,
leading to slower
fundraising and
reduced liquidity.
Fund managers now
face intense
competition for
limited partner
(LP) dollars,
making data-driven
decisions more
critical than
ever.
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Carta’s first
VC Fund
Performance
report, based on data
from 1,803 U.S.
venture funds
(2017-2022),
offers key
insights into
capital
deployment,
company graduation
rates, and LP
distributions.
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Credit:
Carta
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Key Insights
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Slower
Capital
Deployment:
2022 vintage
funds have
deployed
only 43% of
capital
after 24
months, the
slowest
among recent
vintages.
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Lower
Graduation
Rates:
Only 15.4%
of companies
that raised
a seed round
in Q1 2022
reached
Series A
within two
years, down
from 30.6%
in Q1
2018.
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Scarce LP
Distributions:
Less than
10% of 2021
funds have
distributed
returns to
LPs after
three
years.
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Why This
Matters
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These trends
highlight the need
for startups to
secure early
funding and
demonstrate rapid
growth. For fund
managers,
understanding
these shifts is
crucial for
attracting LP
investments.
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Navigate the
challenging VC
landscape by
staying informed
and positioning
your startup for
growth. To dive
deeper into these
insights and
secure the funding
you need to
thrive, download
the full report by visiting the
link.
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Thiel
Believes
'Word'
Skills Will
Outshine
Math in the
AI Era (Link)
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What’s
Behind the
60% Surge in
Start-Up
Failures? (Link)
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The Hidden
Skills
Founders
Must Acquire
to Thrive as
CEOs—Insights
from Ben
Horowitz (Link)
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How He
Raised $4.5M
at Pre-Seed
and Seed
Rounds (Link)
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How Gen Z
Duo Cooper
Scanlon And
Rushi Manche
Raised
$41.4M For
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Stanford
Dropout Is
Redefining
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with OpenAI (Link)
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How Can
Entrepreneurs
Turn Risk
Into
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Why
Ecosystem
Builders Are
Essential to
Startup
Growth (Link)
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Learn from
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Billion AI
Strategy?
Eddie Kim
& Ali
Rowgani
Weigh In (Link)
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Helping
Small
Businesses (Link)
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Why Black
Forest Labs
Is the
Startup to
Watch in
2024 (Link)
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Llama-3.1 8B
to NVIDIA
Llama-3.1-Minitron
4B! (Link)
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Abilities
Improve,
LLMs Form
Their Own
Views of
Reality (Link)
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Company
Guilty of AI
Washing?
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Conrad
Weighs In (Link)
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Condé Nast
Enters
Agreement
with OpenAI
for Future
Collaboration (Link)
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The Truth
Behind
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Collapse':
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Analysis of
AI
Catastrophe
Claims (Link)
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Microsoft
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Bing, and
MSN Data in
October (Link)
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Tailor Your
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Specific
Needs (Link)
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Logistics (Link)
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and Digital
Growth Get a
Boost with
New Funding (Link)
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Raises
$1.85M to
Enhance
Cooling
Solutions
with Metal
Foam
Innovation (Link)
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AMD
Acquires ZT
Systems for
$4.9B to
Boost AI
Server
Capabilities (Link)
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Waza Raises
$8M to
Empower
African
Businesses
in Global
Trade (Link)
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Photon
Health Lands
$9M to
Propel Its
Healthcare
Innovation
Journey (Link)
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SleekFlow
Lands $7M to
Harness
Conversational
AI
Opportunities
in Asia (Link)
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ModelOp
Lands $10M
in Series B
to Enhance
AI
Operations
Platform (Link)
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Cyberbit
Secures
Investment
to Drive
Global
Expansion (Link)
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SportAI,
with Magnus
Carlsen’s
Backing,
Lands $1.8M
for AI
Sports Tech
Development (Link)
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Carpenter-Turned-Entrepreneur
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Buchner
Raises $20M
for AI
Construction
Startup (Link)
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