Carta serves over 35,000 startups, the vast majority of which are US domiciled. Last December, those startups collectively took in $26 billion in new investment.
This past December, that same group took in just over $5 billion.
That's whiplash.
The speed of change is something often missing from the conversation about startup fundraising. Whether or not this new normal is "good" (and for companies that are just beginning, it probably is) skips over the impact of how abrupt the shift has been.
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