In recent years investors greeted founders with generous checks and warm smiles, but now CEOs seeking cash encounter cold shoulders.
, says that while valuations have lowered in 2022 and investors seemed less enthusiastic, a cooler fundraising climate had some advantages to founders. “There’s this balance of wanting to get a high valuation, but then what happens to the next round?” she says. “I’m thankful that we’re raising in a time when that valuation isn’t going to be so shocking.”
Despite the sullen mood among venture capitalists, early-stage startups have some reason for optimism. “This is, indeed, the worst time to raise money in a decade,” says Chester Ng, a partner at the venture studio Atomic. “It’s also the best time in a decade to start a company.” Ng points to the many startups that have “risen from the ashes” of previous downturns: Airbnb, Instagram, and Uber were each founded during the Great Recession. Amazon and Google, both founded in the mid-’90s, benefited from the dotcom crash, after which talent became cheaper and competition thinned out.to its founders earlier this year, startups can survive a downturn as long as they can adapt.
Velasquez Frenkiel raised a $20 million seed round this month. For him, the fundraising process didn’t seem so different from 2012, when he founded, database company SingleStore, which is now a unicorn. “The biggest impact has been valuation adjustment,” he says, “but the reality is startups are still getting funded.”
Patel, the founder of Walnut, agrees that companies can still find capital, even if it takes more effort than in recent history. He’s now focused on the teachable moments from last year’s funding bonanza. “We likely would have raised at a higher valuation if we did it in the fall of 2021,” he says, “but I view it as a blessing in disguise. Things got so inflated in 2021.”
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