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Charting the future of the early-stage venture market with Carta’s CEO

Equity

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The Mid Stage and Growth Markets Are Dead

The average number of seed rounds in 2021 was 780 a quarter that fell to 652 in 2022. And then you saw 407 seed deals in the first quarter of this year on the series A front. So you're right that we are back to where we were before the COVID pandemic and the last period of zero interest rates. But as we see the series A's and larger seed rounds kind of come back to what was the norm, it feels like a lot of companies are going to be stuck or jammed, unable to advance.

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