Hi, Agen. Not everyone or everything ended 2023 on a down note. In fact, Lightspeed Venture Partners — one of Silicon Valley’s legendary startup investors — picked up its investment pace in the final quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows. Plus, last week’s 10 largest U.S. startup funding deals — including the largest of all, a $1.5 billion round to a renewable energy provider. Lightspeed Venture Partners — now nearly a quarter of a century old and known for backing companies such as Snap, Nest and Stripe — significantly picked up its investment cadence in the final quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows. Related Crunchbase Pro list: Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Investments Who said large growth rounds were dead? Last week’s list of 10 largest U.S. startup deals was topped by a whopping $1.5 billion fundraise by a renewable energy company, and followed by large rounds for AI, transportation and biotech companies. See also: The Crunchbase Megadeals Board From M&A activity to Web3 funding, let’s look at what’s happening in the startup world as seen through seven charts based on recent Crunchbase data. Several interesting, under-the-radar companies got investor cash in January, including a startup cleaning up space and one developing humanoid robots to help around the house. Let’s take a look. Healy Jones of startup advisory firm Kruze Consulting analyzed data from about 100 seed-funded startups that tried to raise a Series A in 2023 and compared those that were successful with those that failed. |
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