VC Funds Struggling

7 kayovin1 3 4/26/2025, 2:12:53 PM

Many emerging managers and first time VCs that raised in past 5 years are struggling to raise new funds

The effect will become evident sooner rather than later. Fundraising will be much harder

Anyone seeing this yet?

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toomuchtodo · 2h ago

9 VC firms collected half of all money raised by US funds in 2024 - https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/us-vc-fundraising-concen... - December 11th, 2024

3 years ago, VCs in Bay Area tech were thriving. Now, they're 'bleeding cash.' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42194832 - November 2024

colesantiago · 4m ago

oh no. the poor VCs.

bigyabai · 2h ago

This is a good thing, too many software products enshittify themselves because they're reliant on handouts from their investors.

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VC Funds Struggling

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