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The smallest pre-seed rounds are growing more common, and the largest pre-seed rounds keep growing. Instead of a bell curve, the pre-seed funding market is assuming a very different shape.

The median post-money valuation climbed to $24 million at the seed stage in Q4, and to $78.7 million at Series A. Why do these numbers keep on going up?

The 2021 vintage of venture funds is still relatively early in its lifecycle. But the early data on returns may soon be cause for concern.

The GPs of small venture funds tend to have more skin in the game than the GPs of large funds. How else do the fund economics of small and large VC funds compare?

While today’s picture may mirror what happened when the Fed dropped rates four years ago, there are also several significant ways in which the current environment differs for VCs.

In recent years, the secondary market has become the primary place where many startups and their investors are able to fill the void created by an extended quiet period in the IPO market.

Engineers of all kinds command some of the highest salaries of any startup employees. But the meteoric ascent of AI tools and technology has pushed salaries even higher.

Years of regulatory muddiness created uncertainty among crypto startups, but a wave of new regulation could represent an opening of the floodgates for VC funding.

In Q2, 16.6% of all venture capital raised came from bridge rounds, up from 11.8% during the same period last year. What’s behind the recent bump?

Series A deal count on Carta was down 18% year over year, while cash raised declined by 23%. But valuations at the stage keep going up.

So far this year, about 61% of tenders administered on Carta involved companies at Series C or later, while the other 39% involved companies between the seed stage and Series B.