THE GHOST TRAIN
THE FINANCE GHOST: Trouble ahead in venture capital paradise
The easy money is coming to an end for founders, with capital for the later rounds already starting to dry up
12 May 2022 - 05:00
It’s easy to assess listed index performance and see that 2022 has been a bear market, with equities down sharply and even the resources index on the JSE having given up nearly all its year-to-date gains. It’s not as easy to think about the downstream impact on the private market, in this case the venture capital ecosystem, as you can’t pull that up as a stock code.
I’m seeing founders on Twitter panicking about liquidity drying up, particularly for the Series C rounds and later. This feedback from the coalface is as close as you’ll get to a stock code in this space...
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