Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of January 22, 2024. ightship Raised $34M Series B

Happy Monday!

Race Capital is hiring and please help me to spread the words. =)   

Here are a few great things to read/watch this week:

• 🧒 I am Hiring Summer Interns -  If your college-aged kids are looking at an internship this summer at a Silicon Valley VC, please invite them to apply at Race Capital. Read more here and ask her/him to apply here.
• 💰 20 VC Fund Pitch Decks that Raised $900M from LPs - Read more
• 👋 The Final Foundry Fund - After 18 years, Foundry is saying goodbye to VC.  Read more
• 💰 Investors Raise Billions to Buy Discounted Stakes in Startups - $23 billion to be exact. Crazy amounts of [limited partner investors] are distressed and need to lighten their venture load. Read on the FT
• 💰​ “MANG” (Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Google) is now the largest VC in town Read more

​This week a total of 8 startups raised $179M in funding, 3 M&As:

• $12M goes to 1 Enterprise startup
• $4M goes to 1 Crypto/Blockchain startup
• $95M goes to 2 Healthcare startups
• $21M goes to 1 BioTech startup
• $10M goes to 1 AgTech startup
• $3M goes to 1 Food Tech startup
• $34M goes to 1 Manufacturing startup