After more than a decade of sustained growth, the venture capital community has experienced a rollercoaster for the last three years. During the pandemic we saw an extreme tide: a huge jump in the adoption of technologies, which was fueled by zero interest and quantitative easing. Towards the end of 2021, a series of threats washed over the economy: global inflation, rapid interest rate increases, the war in Ukraine, damage to supply chains, and a banking crisis. All of these led to a change in the tastes of investors, who shifted the focus from growth at any cost to efficient growth and profitability. The growth rate of companies slowed down, and there was a decrease in the value of public companies and the volume of funding rounds and transactions in the private market. READ MORE