Seed founders - don't let crazy French AI rounds fool you.
The median USA priced equity seed round on Carta is currently raising $3.1 million USD.
81% of priced equity seed rounds in Q2 (not complete data yet, but still good numbers) are coming in below $6 million raised.
As you can see in the heatmap below, there was a shift towards slightly bigger seed rounds in late 2021 and early 2022. But that has mostly reverted back in recent quarters.
So far in 2023 on Carta:
49 seed rounds have raised more than $6 million
509 have raised less than $6 million
So congrats to Mistral! But that's not the norm :)
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