Brave New Seed? How Fundraising Has Changed For Startups Since COVID

We are coming up to two years since COVID truly hit the US. The first three months after Mar 2020 markets were down, as was startup activity. But after Q2 2020 we have seen a boom in fundraising like none before in our careers. Law firm Fenwick & West publishes a quarterly report on Silicon Valley venture capital – their Venture Capital barometer in their latest report (Q3 2021) provides a good illustration: Tau Ventures is a Silicon Valley VC fund focused on early stage and as such, this post will describe our experience, focusing on what we have noticed…...