Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of October 17, 2022. DataGrail Raised $45M Series C

Only 1 day away from our Race Capital Venture Summit 2022.  I really feel like we are planning 10 weddings at the same time. ​To get our LPs ready, I sent the following pre-reading materials. I think you would also enjoy reading these materials too.  =) 

Here are a few great reads for this week:

• ​Why the Market Downturn Does Not Impact Early Stage Investment by Alfred Chuang Watch here 
• ​The Future of AI is Distributed by Ion Stoica  Watch here
• SBF in the Hill -  Watch testimony of Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX at the Senate Committee hearing by clicking here and his comment on Stablecoins being the ‘Lowest-hanging Fruit’ for Crypto regulation. 
• Meet Solana Saga - ​Solana Unveils Web3 Mobile Phone by Anatoly Yakovenko Watch here
• Learning from Roelof Botha - ​Investing with the Best by Roelof Botha and Tim Ferriss Listen here

Wish me luck!

This week a total of 12 startups raised $251.1M in funding, 1 M&As:

• $160.5M goes to 6 Enterprise startups
• $10M goes to 1 FinTech startups
• $52.3M goes to 2 Web3/Crypto startups
• $25M goes to 1 Marketplace startup
• $2M goes to 1 Legal Tech startup
• $1.3M goes to 1 Wellness startup