Start Stop. VC funding tightens for startup, scale ups

James Stewart, Amanda Coneyworth, and Tim Winzar discuss what startups and scale ups need to do to navigate today’s constrained venture capital market as investors patience is tested and expectations of financial performance grow.

Reports that $2.3 billion was raised in venture capital funding in Australia to Q3 2023 sounds amazing, until you compare it to the same period in FY22 where this amount is actually down 42 percent. With market uncertainty and significant geopolitical tensions, investors demanding a return to that old fashioned profitability metric (not surprising!), globally, the KPMG Venture Pulse Q2 2023 report states that: Fundraising by venture capital firms remained subdued in the Q3 quarter; and M...

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Authors: James Stewart, Amanda Coneyworth,

Published Date: 09 November 2023