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".
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.
