Summer Slow Down?

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In the investing world, there is typically a Summer slowdown. The old “don’t raise money in the Summer, wait for September mantra.” The VC community is golfing, vacationing in Europe, and not doing deals is the typical thing that I hear.

This Summer, at least for team Social Leverage, is busy with lots of deal flow and lots of diligence on investment opportunities for our Fund V. Many of the founders we met over the last 24 months that were too early, just an idea, or not fully baked are now back raising money with a compelling product and traction.

AI is now in every pitch deck as expected, and its actually surprising when I see a deck now without any AI.

The valuations, amounts being raised and the Series A crunch is definitely real. The right founders are raising from the right investors and keeping their burn low, raise low, and giving themselves optionality. As much as we are seeing mega acquisitions and some IPOs especially in fintech and AI, the reality is there are endless companies trying to raise a bridge and cutting costs to survive.

Hopefully we see more positive IPOs like $CRCL ( ▼ 3.89% ) & $ETOR ( ▼ 2.43% ) and start to see some successful SPACs which will open up more and more liquidity and DPI for investors.

Enjoy the Summer!

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