Vast Majority of Seed Funding Rounds Make No Headlines

Vast Majority of Seed Funding Rounds Make No Headlines

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Peter Walker

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November 4, 2025

With nearly 1,000 seed rounds in 2025, the median company raises quietly with no press coverage—conflating the headline deals with the full market leads...

LinkedIn: Vast Majority of Seed Funding Rounds Make No Headlines

Friendly reminder: the vast majority of startup funding rounds make no headlines. Don't confuse valuations and hype machines in the zone of attention for the full market.

That's an easy way to go crazy these days.

(data from nearly 1,000 seed rounds raised by US startups on Carta so far in 2025).

Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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