Venture Capital 2022 — Up or Down?

Keith Teare
19 min readFeb 5, 2022

By Keith Teare • Issue #295 • View online

This Week @Beezer232 Clarkson leads the way in analyzing 2022 venture capital trends. As the public markets remain in a frenzy of volatility the venture ecosystem seems predictable. or is it? @Bryce, @SamirKaji, and @MylesDanielsen all have opinions. Plus @AleResnik, @HPierreJacques, and @MillicastRTC

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The volatility in the public markets is driving much of the conversation among venture capitalists in Silicon Valley this week. How will it impact me is the question on everybody’s lips. We covered some of this in issue #293, A Tale of Two Markets. But with Facebook falling 25% overnight and PayPal also losing significant value, the subject will just not go away.

Luckily we have some wonderful people weighing in this week, not least of which is Beezer (Elizabeth) Clarkson of Sapphire Ventures. Sapphire is an investors investor I would say. It publishes OpenLP, a site devoted to surveying the…

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Keith Teare

Founder at SignalRank Corporation (https://signalrank.ai). Publisher of That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com), Founding TechCrunch investor