Israel's Startup Community Mobilizes After Attacks, And Our Q3 VC Funding Reports

October 14, 2023 Israeli Tech Workers Prepare To Mobilize In Wake Of Attacks Employees of Israel's tech sector are among the 360,000 reservists in the country's military being called up to mobilize for the expected ground invasion of Gaza following weekend attacks by the terrorist group Hamas. Startups Mobilize → Asia Startup Funding May Be Leveling Off After Quarters Of Decline Funding to startups in Asia in the third quarter of 2023 saw only a slight drop year to year, a sign that the continent's funding market may be finding its equilibrium. Asia Funding → European Venture Funding Slows Further At Seed And Early Stage  Funding to European startups reached $16.4 billion in Q3 2023 — up by 28% quarter over quarter and flat year over year. Europe's Q3 → Latin America Sees Late-Stage Rebound, But Early Stage Declines Venture funding to Latin America increased a bit in the third quarter of this year, as later-stage dealmaking returned to the region. However, reported seed and early-stage investment was down sharply. LatAm Dealmaking → China And Israel Venture Funding Rebound In Q3 While venture funding in Asia is still off even last year's pace, it has slowly crept up from earlier in the year. Asian Countries → The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Main Street Health Leads Slow Week For weeks it seemed like investors couldn't take part in enough nine-figure rounds. Well, that all stopped this week, as only one round topped $100 million (although by quite a lot!) and rounds all-in-all were relatively small. Biggest Deals → Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | View in Browser | Unsubscribe Crunchbase, Inc. 564 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94104