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Last year saw a record 270 first-time funds close, which means there are almost 300 new managers who raised their fund in a bull market and are now deploying it in very different market conditions.

Who will fare better in the current venture downturn? Will it be legacy investors with years of experience and sizable portfolios to worry about or emerging managers starting with a clean slate?

Marketing can’t cure everything that ails a company, but it is the easiest channel to make iterative changes that produce immediate results.

Who will fare better in the current venture downturn? Will it be legacy investors with years of experience and sizable portfolios to worry about or emerging managers starting with a clean slate?

Last year saw a record 270 first-time funds close, which means there are almost 300 new managers who raised their fund in a bull market and are now deploying it in very different market conditions.

Conscience is looking for companies that benefit consumers but have technical defensibility. This thesis encompasses a broad base of industries.

Every quarter we dig into the venture capital market’s global, national and sector-based results to get a feel for what the temperature of the private market is at that point in time. Enter AgentSync. It’s a big space, and the startup was showing rapid initial traction in the form of $1.9 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

Should there be some law against raising three times in one year? Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Every quarter we dig into the venture capital market’s global, national and sector-based results to get a feel ...