For venture capital (VC) investors, the economic uncertainty of this sort-of-post-pandemic world has proven tricky. Add in things like a national anti-DEI backlash (complete with lawsuits) and a substantial drop in 2023 funding despite the launch of open-source generative AI, and you might call it fraught.

To better navigate this uncertainty, we connected with VCs based in Baltimore, DC and Milwaukee to see what trends they’re seeing for 2024. How cautious are they, and what kinds of companies are they interested in investing in?

Here’s what they told us: READ MORE