Silicon Valley Funding News - Week of April 18, 2022. Newfront Raised $200M Series D led by Goldman Sachs

Happy Monday!

Here's 5 great reads for this week:

• 🐦 The Twitter saga continues. Elon made an offer. SBF on What a decentralized Twitter might look like and what David Sacks thinks the new Twitter CEO should do on this.
• 👏 While only 14% of venture capitalists are women, it's absolutely possible for female investors to claim the title of best seed investor in the world. Congrats to Anna Fang of Zhenfund =)
• 🇧🇸 Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Tom Brady are all speaking at CryptoBahamas.  I could never imagine crypto + Bill Clinton could come together. Why not?
• 🏴 The "metaverse" is a vision, not a specific technology.  All buzzword or just bullshit? It could represent a $1 trillion market by the end of the decade. Good market map and analysis by CBinsights. 
• 💵 How much do Web3 Developers get paid? 👉🏻 Benchmark for April 2022

This week a total of 19 startups raised $741.3M in funding, 3 M&As:

• $231.3M goes to 7 Enterprise startups
• $15M goes to 1 FinTech startup
• $22M goes to 1 Blockchain/Crypto startup
• $200M goes to 1 InsurTech startup
• $11M goes to 1 HR startup
• $50M goes to 1 Edtech startup
• $42M goes to 1 Marketplace startup
• $17M goes to 1 Manufacturing startup
• $4M goes to 1 Healthcare startup
• $84M goes to 2 BioTech startups
• $25M goes to 1 AgTech startup
• $40M goes to 1 Renewable Energy startup