🟢Fewer Small and Midsize Venture Funds Raise Capital in 2024
In 2024, the number of new small and midsized U.S. startup funds has dropped significantly, with only 118 raising capital, the lowest in years, reflecting a challenging fundraising environment amid a slow exit market and cautious investor sentiment. However, sector-focused funds in areas like cleantech, life sciences, and cybersecurity are still finding success despite the downturn.
🟢Fewer Small and Midsize Venture Funds Raise Capital in 2024
In 2024, the number of new small and midsized U.S. startup funds has dropped significantly, with only 118 raising capital, the lowest in years, reflecting a challenging fundraising environment amid a slow exit market and cautious investor sentiment. However, sector-focused funds in areas like cleantech, life sciences, and cybersecurity are still finding success despite the downturn.
He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever." "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon." However, the perpetrators of such frauds are now adopting new methods and technologies to defraud the investors. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30.
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