Interesting. Maybe my customers are in a different market than where this was based on but I haven't seen a slowdown, either in deal volume or in the size of the individual deals. Bumper Q1 in fact and Q2 looks quite strong so far. Obviously the war in Ukraine has a lot of people worried and I have seen some immediate impact of this in some of the start-ups I looked at (because they either had a development or a support department in Ukraine) but for the most part it looks as long as the war does not escalate further or draws in other European territories that the impact on the start-up/VC scene will be limited.
What I do still see is a reluctance to invest in the hospitality/travel industry which used to make up a fair percentage of the investments. Most likely this is still an effect of the ongoing pandemic. This money seems to have shifted mostly towards fintech where the number of deals is up and so are the valuations.
What's with all the self quotes by the way? It doesn't really add much credibility if you are quoting yourself to make the point you are making, that doesn't add evidence, it just creates a circle.
The self-quotes really threw me off once I realized they were self-quotes. Most of them seem like self-comments, which would feel better if added as some sort of sidebar instead of interrupting the content.
Agree. I see it a lot recently where people embed their own tweets into articles they write. And often they don't even directly refer to the tweet in the main text - it is more of a weird mini summary of a few paragraphs of text just placed in there. Why? Is it in hopes readers will click through to twitter and follow the author?
What I do still see is a reluctance to invest in the hospitality/travel industry which used to make up a fair percentage of the investments. Most likely this is still an effect of the ongoing pandemic. This money seems to have shifted mostly towards fintech where the number of deals is up and so are the valuations.
What's with all the self quotes by the way? It doesn't really add much credibility if you are quoting yourself to make the point you are making, that doesn't add evidence, it just creates a circle.