SineWave’s Founder & Managing Partner Yanev Suissa featured in PYMNTS: “As Markets Gyrate, Startup Investors Search for Success Where ‘VC Meets D.C.'”
Get ready for a seismic shift in the venture capital (VC) industry.
Amid the downturn in the public markets, the swoons in the Nasdaq (down more than 20% YTD), the PYMNTS FinTech IPO Index is down even more, off a staggering 35% YTD through last year.
That index could be used as a proxy for the new and emerging technologies tied to the great digital shift and the early-stage capital committed for companies that ultimately went public (which is a typical VC exit strategy). Call it the great fizzling.
“VCs were getting greedy,” SineWave Ventures Founder/Managing Partner Yanev Suissa told Karen Webster, and backing funds worth billions of dollars that presupposes that there would be 300 great companies to invest in.
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