🏦 I Asked 5 Top VCs About the Current Fundraising Climate

This newsletter is built to help founders grow their startups.

Since fundraising is challenging at the moment, I'm trying something new — curated fundraising advice from great investors in my network. I've also added my thoughts.

We're fortunate to have some incredible investors sharing their current takes on how to navigate the market with us:

• Christine Kim, Greylock

• Lucas Bagno, Village Global

• Julian Weisser, On Deck

• Sachi Kamiya, Polygon

• Brian Truong, Graph Ventures

Read time: 5 minutes

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🏦 The Investor Update

What's the current state of the fundraising markets?

A higher bar for being able to raise doesn't deter great founders, and that lower valuations actually give founders more flexibility and less risk with their next round.

There's an interesting duality for investors right now — an uncertain future paired with a lot of already-raised capital sitting in their funds.

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