Early-Stage Startup Investing Update 1st Quarter 2024

Valuable information for founders and investors in the latest Carta data

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readMay 1, 2024

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Pre-Seed/Seed investment continued to drop in 2024. Charts courtesy of Carta. Reprinted here by permission.

When angel investors get together, the main topic of conversation is inevitably the shifting sands of startup investments and the recent gyrations of valuations. When I meet with founders in mentoring sessions, their first question is always what’s going…

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