Venture capital spending topped $4.5B in Q1

I’ve got a dose of optimistic news for you this morning: From a venture capital perspective, the first quarter wasn’t so bad!

Preliminary data from PitchBook suggests that the quarter saw roughly $4.5 billion in VC spending, with half of that coming from Binance’s deal with Abu Dhabi’s MGX. To put that figure into context, we saw a little over $2 billion per quarter last year. READ MORE