After the pre-seed round is a time for a startup to plan for securing follow-on investments, says guest author Sergei Bogdanov, who shares early-stage funding advice to founders regarding what to do as well as what not to do.
Seed funding
The busiest venture backers upped their game in the recently ended first quarter. Among the 14 most-active post-seed investors, a majority backed...
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Europe’s venture funding plateaued at $12.6 billion in Q1 2025 — flat quarter over quarter and year over year, Crunchbase data shows. Without the...
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Latin America startup investment declined sequentially in the first quarter of this year, driven by a drop in later-stage dealmaking. Even so...
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Bay Area-based SignalFire, a data-driven venture firm, has raised $1 billion for its fifth and largest fund, which it will invest in applied AI...
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Despite several big deals that buoyed the numbers, North America early- and seed-stage investment declined to multiquarter lows in Q1, and reported...
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Overall, the first quarter of 2025 marked the strongest one for venture investment since Q2 2022. Funding was up 17% quarter over quarter from the...
VC firms receive thousands of pitch decks a year and a typical investor will spend no more than two to three minutes assessing each one. In this...
Companies stalled at the seed stage might be sacrificing growth to get to breakeven, which could further hinder their ability to show the traction...
Even as overall seed-stage investment declined in 2024, a few areas saw big gains. This includes the obvious category — AI — as well as a subset of...
U.S. seed-stage investment actually declined a bit last year, particularly in a handful of industries including several beset by disappointing...
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