Give startups just a little good news already!
It's a little exhausting reading (and writing) consistent negative news about VC-backed startups these days. Not saying those stories aren't accurate - it's the dominant narrative for a reason.
We dug deep into our Carta data bag and found a silver lining.
Shout out to the hardware startups - always considered "playing on hard mode", hardware was one of the very few industries to see valuations rise in H2 from H1 last year.
Subscribers to the Data Minute get to see how each of these other industries fared 👀
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