Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of April 25, 2022. NexHealth Raised $125M Series C

Happy Monday and hello from the Bahamas!

I am at the  FTX Crypto Bahamas conference for the week and I am excited to be here. =). And it is so warm and hot! 🥵

Here's 5 great reads for this week:

• ⌛10 minutes investing is not how we should invest. I don't think this is what a responsible investor should act, but I do agree that portfolio construction is super important.
• 🏎️ The Solana ecosystem needs a wave of data infrastructure projects to power the next generation of dapps. We're not going to get the next billion users if dapps don't load in < 1 sec. Read more.
• 💵 Over time, companies will become stratified into Compute Rich and Compute Poor. Just like Apple can expel companies dependent on their ecosystems today (Epic Games, Zynga).  In the future, if you lose access to your language model, your product won't function. Food for thought …… 
• 🇨🇳 The voice of Shanghai, may your voices be heard. Sad and creepy to watch.
• 💰 I found my SOLmate and invested in Hedge Labs. Hedge is building Solana based vaults & fully backed collateralized stablecoin.

This week a total of 19 startups raised $939.6M in funding, 3 M&As:

• $207.5M goes to 8 Enterprise startups
• $35M goes to 1 InsurTech startup
• $16M goes to 1 Real Estate startup
• $35M goes to 1 EdTech startup
• $4.5M goes to 1 Robotics startup
• $50M goes to 1 BioTech startup
• $131M goes to 2 Healthcare startups
• $400M goes to 1 FoodTech startup
• $3.6M goes to 1 Hospitality startup
• $6M goes to 1 Environmental startup
• $51M goes to 1 Cannabis startup