Funds, founders and the future. Sam Nasrolahi examines the 2023 VC landscape

Funds, founders and the future. Sam Nasrolahi examines the 2023 VC landscape

2022 saw the deepest slump in the value of new VC deals ever recorded. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that the overarching narrative at the beginning of 2023 was one of ongoing pessimism, with many investors, journalists and academics predicting it to be the worst funding period for decades.