Know Your Capital Available Today
Capital Available Today - TL;DR
Plenty of Seed and Pre-Seed capital still available, but more competition for the money than ever, signal to noise (diamonds to coal) ratio not scaling along with the amount of capital, and raising Series A is much harder today in 2025 than it used to be
Frustrated and confused that no VC will take a meeting because you don't have AI anywhere in your pitch deck - although you have what you think is a good business? Read this: "Why Investors Don't Care About Your Business".
SaaS Metrics in 2024
What it takes to raise Series A and Series B today:
Emergence Capital report on 2024 Benchmarks
Redpoint Capital Seed may still be strong, but there's no bounce back at Series A, report
Startup Valuation Data (real-time): https://stack.angellist.com/valuations
Christoph Janz on what it takes to raise funding for SaaS startups in 2023
Alexander Campbell on the 2024 Series A Crunch.
Crunchbase on "The Mixed State Of Startup Funding In 2024" (charts & stats).
SaaS Funding Benchmarks 2024
SaaS Funding Napkin 2023
Above, from Emergence Capital's report Beyond Benchmarks 2024. Below, from Redpoint Capital's Market Overview 2024 report.