Nnamdi Iregbulem

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Venture Capital & Startups

• Valuations Need a Correction ↗ 13 Oct 2026
  Private venture valuations are systematically overstated because only successful fundraisers appear in data; using Series A graduation rates as a filter, the author estimates true Seed valuations are ~4× lower than reported new deals and have grown far slower, revealing a shrinking, concentrated market beneath inflated headlines.
• Taking Stock of the Seed Stage 12 Jun 2026
• The Measurability Gap in Venture Capital 27 Apr 2026
• Tokens Aren't Fungible 27 Apr 2026
• Tokens Aren't Fungible 11 Feb 2026
• Seed Valuations Aren’t Valuations 2 Oct 2024
• AI Benchmarking Is Broken 28 May 2024
• The Venture Activity Index – Q4 2023 7 Mar 2024
• The Series A Bust 3 Jan 2024
• How Redpanda is Taking Data Streaming Mainstream 10 Aug 2023
• The Venture Activity Index 25 Jul 2023
• The Shadow Price of Venture Capital 14 Jun 2023
• Don't Discount Interest Rates 10 May 2023
• We Don't Have Nearly Enough Startups 11 Jan 2023
• Old Valuations Die Hard 13 Dec 2022
• It's Valuations (Almost) All the Way Down 1 Nov 2022
• Beats and Misses Are Forever 14 Sept 2022
• Layoffs Don't Tell the Whole Story 31 Aug 2022
• COVID Hurt Most Software Companies 2 Aug 2022
• The Dark Matter of Software Valuations 19 Jul 2022
• Series A Rounds Are a Math Test 27 Jun 2022
• Funding Simply Shifts the Bottleneck 22 Apr 2022
• Breaking Apart the Rule of 40 3 Mar 2022
• Schrodinger's Balance Sheet: When Equity Becomes a Liability 7 Feb 2022
• Introducing a New and Improved SaaS Metric: Weighted ACV 11 Jan 2022
• Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations 9 Nov 2021
• WebAssembly-ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine 9 Oct 2021
• You Can't Eat Relative Growth 23 Sept 2021
• Do Wealthy Investors Have an Edge? 18 Aug 2021
• PhDs Aren't Starting Companies Like They Used To 8 Jul 2021

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