“If you have a company where you think, with a little bit more money and with a little bit more runway, they will get to the spot where they can justify that valuation, that’s good in today’s market,” said Krenn. Instead, they’re providing bridge funding to help their startups get to a point where sales and earnings validate the valuations that they achieved during the boom years - or at least come close enough that startups can raise additional capital from new investors without a large valuation haircut. That means they’re not bringing in new investors, who likely would demand a reset of valuations at lower levels. In the wake of the pullback, some venture firms are opting for “insider rounds” for their portfolio companies, said Mike Krenn, who runs Connect/San Diego Venture Group. San Diego ranked 12 th nationally for startup funding in the first quarter. Nationwide, $37 billion in venture capital flowed to startups in the first quarter - down roughly 50 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, according to Venture Monitor. “The companies that we see at EvoNexus that have raised an A round or a B round or a C round, investors are saying get to profitability.” “The triage is getting close to ending, choosing who survives and who doesn’t,” said Moore. It was all about growth - not earnings - just revenue growth.” “There was a lot of money thrown at deals to get first-mover advantage,” he said.
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“Companies that can raise a Series C in this environment need to showcase massive potential, which we saw in Mosaic.”ĭuring the pandemic funding boom, valuations often got overheated, said Rory Moore, head of startup incubator EvoNexus. “In 2023, we’re on pace to see the lowest volume of Series C venture capital deals in years,” said Eugene Lee, partner at OMERS Ventures. Versant Ventures invests mostly in biotech companies, but venture capitalists focused on software, hardware and other technology startups are facing a similar trend. That means the finance environment for later stage companies has become tighter.” “The IPO market went from being extremely hot to being a lot more selective. “I think where companies have been particularly impacted is Series B and beyond,” said Clare Ozawa, managing director of Versant Ventures, in a recent interview. While today’s funding crunch is being felt across all stages of the startup lifecycle - from companies just starting out to those on the cusp of an initial public stock offering (IPO) - the difficulty in raising money seems to be growing for mid- to later-stage startups. Much of the money in the first quarter went to biotech and health care companies, a sector that has long been the key pillar of the region’s venture capital activity. That amount is equivalent to startup funding in the first quarter of 2019 - before the pandemic-era boom. In the first quarter, venture capital flowing into young San Diego County companies came in at $588 million, down 30 percent over the same quarter last year, according to data from the Venture Monitor report from research firm PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. Startups here and across the country are facing similar changes in the funding landscape as they seek to raise additional capital.
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