Seed rounds are smaller again, and founders say that is fine
After two years of oversized early rounds, investors are writing cheques that match actual milestones.
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After two years of oversized early rounds, investors are writing cheques that match actual milestones.
Profitable at 40 people, the company turned down term sheets and kept going. Three years later it is still here.
Cheaper engineering talent, local manufacturing incentives and a funding scene that finally understands long cycles.
The team kept the routing engine and threw away everything else. Revenue followed within a quarter.
Per-seat pricing collapses when a team of five does the work of fifty. Vendors are scrambling for new models.
Five years in, the programme has produced two acquisitions and one company still growing on its own terms.
One person, a handful of contractors and a stack of automation can now run a company with real revenue.
Investors have decided that breaches are inevitable and are backing the companies that help afterwards.
One technical university has produced forty companies in five years. The process is more mundane than the results suggest.
Companies dismissed as thin layers over a model are posting retention numbers that suggest the layer matters.
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