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Securing VC funding is crucial for any startup to transform innovative ideas into reality, fuel growth, and create value. Despite tighter market conditions, early-stage capital remains available for promising teams and visionary entrepreneurs addressing significant industry problems.
Raising a growth round is much more difficult than before as Series B investor demands have significantly increased, yet many founders continue to base their Series B plans on their Series A experience. The current average time between Series A and Series B is about 31 months (compared to just 18 months between Seed and Series A), meaning many companies end up running out of capital and runway.
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HNW investors hungry for more alts, Brookfield Oaktree survey finds
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A Brookfield Oaktree survey reveals high-net-worth investors' growing interest in alternatives, with advisors seeing it as key to growth, client satisfaction.
North American Startup Funding Weakened In Q3 As Largest Deal Took Longer To Close
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In total, investors put $40.5 billion into startups across all stages in Q3. That’s a decline of 10% from the prior quarter and an increase of 22% from year-ago levels.
European VC Funding Drops To Lowest Quarter In 4 Years, Despite Uptick For German Startups
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Venture funding to European startups reached $10 billion in Q3 2024 — the lowest quarter since the third quarter of 2020, Crunchbase data shows.Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues impact the communities where Navigate Ventures and our portfolio companies operate. Navigate Ventures recognizes this and commits to incorporate ESG principles in the way we behave. Navigate Venture’s ESG guideline was developed in alignment with the requirements of the UN Global Compact’s principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations as well as the OECD guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
