Founders - fall fundraising is officially here. Use our data on valuations and round sizes to help you negotiate with investors.
This is the freshest possible fundraising data, hand-picked just this morning from across the Carta platform. Locally sourced from 38,000 of the finest cap tables in the US.
Primary rounds only, raised in the last 60 days.
The pre-seed figures are for companies using post-money SAFEs and raising less than $1 million total (to remove the influence of "seed on SAFEs" rounds).
To the data!
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$7.5M median valuation cap with $466K raised
Drifted slightly downward over the last 60 days, but still the most active part of the venture market
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$3.1M raised on a $14.4M pre-money valuation
Implied valuation increase of 1.9x from pre-seed
Median valuations are now close to 2021 levels, though number of rounds is far below peak
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$10.7M raised on a $39M valuation
2.7x jump from Seed valuation
Basically flat from Q2
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$20.5M on $85M valuation
2.2x jump from Series A
Actually a little decline from Q2
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$31.5M raised on $255M pre-money val
Not a lot of rounds happening here, still a very constricted market
If you want more specific info for your industry or location, shout it out in the comments and I'll try to answer :)
Here's to a fall full of fundraising!
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