The key insight this week
Welcome back to the Data Minute, your favorite snackable newsletter dedicated to all things venture data. Thank you to the dozens of people who submitted questions from our prior newsletter. We loved getting to answer your most pressing inquiries.
Going into the new year, finding the right valuation and round size is a crucial step for every founder and investor looking to complete venture rounds. The charts below are built with a first cut of the 2022 data we have so far. Though Q4 numbers will shift somewhat as more rounds get recorded on the Carta platform, this early data should still give you insight into the most recent trends.
Without further ado: the first cut of pre-money valuations and round sizes for seed through Series E+.
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Peter Walker
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