{"id":595369,"date":"2023-01-08T05:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/lets-keep-our-seed-activity-expectations-in-check\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T05:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:48:54","slug":"lets-keep-our-seed-activity-expectations-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/lets-keep-our-seed-activity-expectations-in-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s keep our seed activity expectations in check"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span>W<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/the-exchange\/?utm_source=internal&#038;utm_medium=WPunit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daily TechCrunch+ column<\/a> where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/newsletters?utm_source=internal&#038;utm_medium=WPunit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>It is always nice to start a new year with a dose of optimism \u2014 as long as it is warranted. After reviewing PitchBook\u2019s latest analysis, I am starting to reconsider my expectations for seed-stage dealmaking in 2023, and maybe you will,<\/i><i> too. Let\u2019s explore. \u2014 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abracarioca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Anna<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Upcoming pressure?<\/h2>\n<p>As 2022 came to a close, I tried to keep my expectations in check: If even Instacart was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/12\/29\/is-instacart-a-forerunner-of-bad-news\/\">no longer ready to go public just yet<\/a>, I had to gear up for the dearth of tech IPOs to continue in the first quarter or even the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>However, seed-stage venture capital activity was one of the things I felt reasonably optimistic about for the new year. Sure, public market woes had trickled down to private dealmaking. But while post-Series A deal count and deal volume were impacted, angel and seed-stage investment activity seemed pretty stable.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/07\/lets-keep-our-seed-activity-expectations-in-check\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Anna Heim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. It is always nice to start a new year with a dose of optimism \u2014 as long as it is warranted. After reviewing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25656,1650,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-activity","8":"category-lets","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}