Deal-flow experts aren’t sweating the enterprise slowdown

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As we get nearer to the top of the yr, I assumed it might be a superb time to meet up with a couple of individuals who stored a detailed eye on deal move in 2022 and search for indicators of what is likely to be coming in 2023.

On a facet notice, this article is happening a break till January 7, 2023. Thanks so much for studying me since I took over from Alex again in May. I stay up for writing extra dispatches within the New Year! — Anna

An replace on deal-flow newsletters

I wrote a chunk in May about deal-flow newsletters, whose aim is to assist buyers uncover attention-grabbing startups with out leaving their inbox. In mild of how the worldwide marketplace for startup funding has modified — dwindled — in 2022, and the way media corporations have struggled, we had been curious how the initiatives we discovered about earlier within the yr had been doing. So we checked in, chatting with the founding father of deal-flow publication PreSeed Now Martin SFP Bryant.

He shared the next updates:

• From the beginning of May to the beginning of December, PreSeed Now has profiled greater than 50 early-stage B2B and deep tech startups from across the U.Okay.
• It’s driving deal move. Many startups report getting curiosity from tech buyers because of the protection. Startups have additionally recruited employees and gained extra media curiosity because of being featured.
• In phrases of precise investments generated, that could be a bit more durable to measure at this stage, however I’m going to conduct some analysis into this as we method the publication’s first birthday in May 2023.