With the VC market as frothy as it is and investors chasing growth in earlier and earlier stage funding rounds, nascent startups are facing pressure to “grow up” faster and act more like later-stage companies.
The ballooning of seed rounds has led to seed companies acting like Series A companies all the way down the line to Series C companies acting like publicly traded ones. This wasn’t always the case, but the trend is here and won’t be going away any time soon. READ MORE