Rural communities often use "Startup" and "Small Business" interchangeably. But they are not the same thing.
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Discover the pulse of #startup funding in 2024! Carta's latest report unpacks the trends and challenges shaping the landscape. A must-read for entrepreneurs and industry professionals:
The Top 5 Startup Funding Trends
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If I were to pinpoint one factor, the government funding is both the boon and bane for startups similar to water for plants. Too little, there's death. Too much, incentives align with just chasing government dollars instead of the actual market. Increasingly, businesses seem to be more focused on chasing grants and bureaucrats are not best suited to help determine which startups are the best (no one has an actual crystal ball) Beyond the money, the attention and free marketing by the gatekeepers drive up valuation but are they helping to drive value remains to be seen --- Folks in the startup space, super curious of your thoughts for this as well https://lnkd.in/gy29Rh7r
Is Singapore lacking capable founders? Experts weigh in on S’pore’s startup scene
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There’s no denying it’s an incredibly tough time for startups at the moment. Possibly the toughest in the last 5-6 years. The number of startups who tell me that they are ‘running out of runway’ is increasing. But amid that doom and gloom there are some chinks of light. The level of grant funding in the UK and Europe is being maintained, and Bidshaper can double your chances of success in applying for them. Bidding for commercial tenders is tough in a competitive market. Using our bid writers’ skills and reviewer feedback you’ve received, we can improve the quality of your tender responses to get you the #win you need and deserve. Dr Ewa Truchanowicz FRSA and I have also mentored dozens of companies / founders. If you’re looking to scale and are in the weeds, let us help you navigate through to the best outcome possible. That applies to UK and international health and care companies. Got great ideas? So do we. Let’s combine them and make a difference. #startups #scaleups #grantfunding #funding #commercialbids #tenders #RFP #ITT https://lnkd.in/du3-2YvU
Startup failures surge by 58% in US during 2024 amid funding crunch
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In this insightful post, our program manager Molly Inclán, MBA digs into the relationship between government, public institutions, and entrepreneurship. From tax benefits to policy support, the government and entrepreneur support organizations, like us, play a pivotal role in fostering a thriving ecosystem. This is just a glimpse into the interconnected web that elevates innovation in South Carolina. Learn more about our local ecosystem at https://startupgvl.com/ Startup Greenville SC #StartupGVL #Entrepreneurship #GovernmentSupport #InnovationJourney
4/8 The third component of entrepreneurial ecosystems is the government and I'll take some artistic liberties and group government-ish under this umbrella. So how does the government play in entrepreneurial ecosystems? The government can be local, state or federal. How does the government benefit from entrepreneurship and startups? First, when revenue is generated they gain tax money, employee wages provide tax money, when you apply for business licenses they earn fees. Secondly, when you hire employees that brings people to states and cities which increases populations, it brings wealth/creates wealth, it means more people are buying houses/paying rent. Thirdly, when you expand you may be taking up office space which fills vacant office space. It all adds to the economy and creates wealth for these hubs and the people that live in them. It provides opportunity for families and cities to rise together. When there's more tax money to go around, cities and states can use that money for improvements to the city and the infrastructure and build thriving cities. So what does the government do for the ecosystem? They create policies, tax-breaks, etc. that benefit startups/investors such as the Angel Investor Tax Credit in South Carolina. The government also provides funds that help entrepreneurship. At NextGEN we have 3 major funders: Greenville Chamber (not government), City of Greenville, South Carolina and Greenville County. So you can see here is the connection between some Entrepreneurial Support Organizations (part 2) and local governments. The government also provides grant funds that help ESOs put in programs like the Relentless Challenge Grant from the South Carolina Department of Commerce. How does the government interact with colleges and universities (part 3)? First public universities are usually funded by the state government (at least in part) in most states and universities are great incubators of research and highly-talented pools of people. The federal government can provide large amounts of grant money through organizations like the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund research and projects that may eventually be commercialized to bring innovation to market. Other government-chartered organizations like SCRA: South Carolina Research Authority provide grants and SC Launch provides investment to startups that often jump-start early-stage startups. This doesn't cover anywhere close to all the interactions in our ecosystem between the government (and government-ish) entities but I hope it illustrates to you that we are a web and as that web gets more dense we can catch and lift innovation and startups in SC. Each component both gives and receives benefit and the future is bright in South Carolina. Visit www.startupgvl.com to find out more about the Greenville, SC ecosystem and join us on this journey. We are going places and we'd love you to come with us. #startupgvl #greenvillesc #innovation #entrepreneurship
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? How many #startups have been created in the EU last year? While the U.S. is experiencing a #startup boom, Europe’s picture is more complex. The lack of a unified methodology to track new tech ventures across countries makes it hard to gauge the full extent of entrepreneurial activity. However, there are encouraging signs—despite a recent dip, startup creation is slowly picking up. https://hubs.la/Q02M0gXV0
The state of startup creation in Europe
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New US leaderboard: most funding by metro area for pre-seed startups Lots of talk these days about the best location for startups across the US, driven by a recent WSJ article and the consistent slap-fights among various city proponents on X. I love a good list! But one of the issues with a broad look at all VC cash is that it obscures the timescale problem. In order to climb in the broad rankings, you need late-stage companies because late-stage companies raise the big rounds. But if your ecosystem is younger, it's unlikely to have many late-stage companies. So we can use Carta data (and I think no one else has even close to this level of information) to drill down to the earliest funding on SAFEs and Convertible Notes. Is any place challenging the Bay Area hegemony for early startups? Nope. Important note: here we are using the term "pre-seed" rather broadly. This includes all funding on SAFEs or Convertible Notes before any priced round. Many of the rounds included would be "seed on SAFEs" or other such names. ?????????? ???????????????????? ? Bay Area (combined SF and San Jose MSAs) comes in first since 2020 with 30% share and nearly $4 billion invested. ?? ? Bay Area share actually climbed in 2023 to 34%, as it was the only major market in the top 7 to grow total investment from 2022. ?? ? Miami, the most-debated metro, does better in this analysis than in a broad VC view. 3% share since 2020 vs a 1.7% share in broad VC funding. This makes sense! If an ecosystem is going to change, it will start with the earliest part of the market. ?? ? Massive booms in pre-seed funding from 2020 to 2021. Some of this is due to our platform making it easier to create and sign SAFEs, but most is just the startup sugar high from that year. ?? ? Interesting to see Boston fall to 4th in this list behind both NYC and LA. Probably has to due a little bit with the industry mix being tilted towards biotech and hard sciences which move into named venture rounds quickly. The next question for us to answer - where is this money coming from? Are startups primarily taking investment from local capital or are the funders still in the mature ecosystems? But open to your thoughts on next questions as well! Subscribe to our Data Minute newsletter at the link in graphic for early access to this sort of data analysis - out every Thursday. #cartadata #preseed #startups #founders #SAFEs
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??Out of the top 15 US Metros, the Bay Area raises more than numbers 4-15 combined! Here are the details ?? 30% of Pre-Seed Funding $'s goes to Bay Area startups. ?? Do you think this funding map will see any change? ?? Our bets: ? Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle continue to gain in prominence. ?? –––––––––––––––– Raising funding? (check the link)?? –––––––––––––––– #venturecapital #earlystageinvesting #startups #founders
New US leaderboard: most funding by metro area for pre-seed startups Lots of talk these days about the best location for startups across the US, driven by a recent WSJ article and the consistent slap-fights among various city proponents on X. I love a good list! But one of the issues with a broad look at all VC cash is that it obscures the timescale problem. In order to climb in the broad rankings, you need late-stage companies because late-stage companies raise the big rounds. But if your ecosystem is younger, it's unlikely to have many late-stage companies. So we can use Carta data (and I think no one else has even close to this level of information) to drill down to the earliest funding on SAFEs and Convertible Notes. Is any place challenging the Bay Area hegemony for early startups? Nope. Important note: here we are using the term "pre-seed" rather broadly. This includes all funding on SAFEs or Convertible Notes before any priced round. Many of the rounds included would be "seed on SAFEs" or other such names. ?????????? ???????????????????? ? Bay Area (combined SF and San Jose MSAs) comes in first since 2020 with 30% share and nearly $4 billion invested. ?? ? Bay Area share actually climbed in 2023 to 34%, as it was the only major market in the top 7 to grow total investment from 2022. ?? ? Miami, the most-debated metro, does better in this analysis than in a broad VC view. 3% share since 2020 vs a 1.7% share in broad VC funding. This makes sense! If an ecosystem is going to change, it will start with the earliest part of the market. ?? ? Massive booms in pre-seed funding from 2020 to 2021. Some of this is due to our platform making it easier to create and sign SAFEs, but most is just the startup sugar high from that year. ?? ? Interesting to see Boston fall to 4th in this list behind both NYC and LA. Probably has to due a little bit with the industry mix being tilted towards biotech and hard sciences which move into named venture rounds quickly. The next question for us to answer - where is this money coming from? Are startups primarily taking investment from local capital or are the funders still in the mature ecosystems? But open to your thoughts on next questions as well! Subscribe to our Data Minute newsletter at the link in graphic for early access to this sort of data analysis - out every Thursday. #cartadata #preseed #startups #founders #SAFEs
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The 2nd post I have seen in two weeks where the #NorthCarolina #entrepreneurs are getting frisky about #investor funding of #startups in the ecosystem. VERY Interesting And again, these are Triangle based entrepreneurs that get 80% of the funding in North Carolina. Let's see what is said at the Big Launch Challenge today in #Durham about this topic. https://lnkd.in/e_igMqZZ
LinkedIn's top 50 startups in America: How North Carolina can capitalize on its tech spotlight
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Great insight from Peter Walker and the Carta team. But, I wonder which metro has the "best" pre-seed ecosystem. Which city is the most "entrepreneurial"? To answer this question, I divided the average annual funding for each metro area by the population to get per capita pre-seed funding. This is the ranking. 1) Bay Area: $154 per person 2) Austin: $45 3) Bostin: $29 4) Salt Lake City: $29 5) New York: $26 6) Seattle: $25 7) Denver $23 8) Los Angeles: $23 9) Miami: $16 10) San Diego: $15 11) Washington DC: $11 12) Philadelphia: $7 13) Chicago: $7 14) Houston: $6 15) Atlanta: $6 National Average: $10 A few takeaways. ? The rank ordering of cities makes a lot of intuitive sense. But, there were a few surprises. Why is SLC so high? ? There are major differences in per capita funding amounts across cities, so location matters. ? The Bay Area's dominance is significant. 3x its closest competitor. It makes me think -- are there underlying demographic, cultural, or local economy reasons for these differences?
New US leaderboard: most funding by metro area for pre-seed startups Lots of talk these days about the best location for startups across the US, driven by a recent WSJ article and the consistent slap-fights among various city proponents on X. I love a good list! But one of the issues with a broad look at all VC cash is that it obscures the timescale problem. In order to climb in the broad rankings, you need late-stage companies because late-stage companies raise the big rounds. But if your ecosystem is younger, it's unlikely to have many late-stage companies. So we can use Carta data (and I think no one else has even close to this level of information) to drill down to the earliest funding on SAFEs and Convertible Notes. Is any place challenging the Bay Area hegemony for early startups? Nope. Important note: here we are using the term "pre-seed" rather broadly. This includes all funding on SAFEs or Convertible Notes before any priced round. Many of the rounds included would be "seed on SAFEs" or other such names. ?????????? ???????????????????? ? Bay Area (combined SF and San Jose MSAs) comes in first since 2020 with 30% share and nearly $4 billion invested. ?? ? Bay Area share actually climbed in 2023 to 34%, as it was the only major market in the top 7 to grow total investment from 2022. ?? ? Miami, the most-debated metro, does better in this analysis than in a broad VC view. 3% share since 2020 vs a 1.7% share in broad VC funding. This makes sense! If an ecosystem is going to change, it will start with the earliest part of the market. ?? ? Massive booms in pre-seed funding from 2020 to 2021. Some of this is due to our platform making it easier to create and sign SAFEs, but most is just the startup sugar high from that year. ?? ? Interesting to see Boston fall to 4th in this list behind both NYC and LA. Probably has to due a little bit with the industry mix being tilted towards biotech and hard sciences which move into named venture rounds quickly. The next question for us to answer - where is this money coming from? Are startups primarily taking investment from local capital or are the funders still in the mature ecosystems? But open to your thoughts on next questions as well! Subscribe to our Data Minute newsletter at the link in graphic for early access to this sort of data analysis - out every Thursday. #cartadata #preseed #startups #founders #SAFEs
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Every quarter, California is home to more startup fundraising activity than any other state in the U.S. But in Q1 2024, the startup industry's traditional home was even more dominant than usual. Startups based in California raised 59.25% of all capital on Carta during Q1 among states where at least 10 deals took place. Compare that to a year ago: In Q1 2023, California startups raised 37.9% of all funding. Over the full course of 2023, the state's share of the fundraising pie was 40.41%. In total, startups from the Golden State raised $9 billion in Q1, up from $7 billion the prior quarter and the highest quarterly total since Q3 2022, when overall cash raised across the whole U.S. was significantly higher ($22.9 billion, compared to $16.3 billion in Q1 2024). This wasn't a matter of funding from other states receding while California held steady. The California funding scene seems to be surging, aided by the ongoing AI gold rush underway in and around the Bay Area. Some other highlights from the Q1 map of VC funding: -Massachusetts had the second highest share of capital raised in the quarter of any state, with 11.25%. New York was third, at 11.05%. -It was a tepid quarter in Texas: Startups in the state raised just 2.32% of all capital among states with at least 10 deals, down from 6.45% over the course of 2023. -The whole South region raised 12% of U.S. venture funding in Q1 2024, down from 23% compared to Q1 2023. -Colorado was another western state with a big Q1. The state's startups raised 3.64% of funding last quarter, up from about 2% last year and the fourth-highest Q1 share of any state. I'll drop a link in the comments below to my full story on how the Q1 map of funding shook out.
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