There were fewer Pre-Seed and Seed rounds in 2024 than at any point in the past decade. Every stage has been impacted by the pull back, but rounds at the earliest stages have seen an especially big drop. The numbers are likely worse for pre-seed because YC jumped up to writing

A journalist should write a refresh on this story from 2005 looking at the brutal realities that many VC partnerships face in a downturn. So many firms going through this right now. It’s the unfortunate reality when the power law dictates the returns within a venture firm. On a

Come spend your summer with us! We're kicking off our search for interns at Equal Ventures If you're intellectually curious, execution-oriented, ambitious, and friendly, we want to hear from you. newsletter.equal.vc/p/summer-2025-…

🚨 Announcing the 2025 Equal Ventures Insurance Capital Summit! 🚨 📅 May 8, 2025 | 📍 NYC An invite-only gathering of top carriers, brokers, investors & innovators shaping the future of insurance. Apply to attend → newsletter.equal.vc/p/announcing-i… Adam Chadroff Equal Ventures

Hosting a private event next week for top operators and founders thinking about what’s next alongside next play A confidential and private way to meet others that are in a similar boat here in NY and looking for co-conspirators or new roles. Have an impressive group signed

It’s pretty surprising that there are 10x more LLM search monitoring platforms than there are LLM-powered search competitors. Feels like no one is trying to give Perplexity/Google a run for their money but everyone wants to build SEMRush/Ahrefs 2.0.

I’m incredibly excited to announce our initial investment in 9root, the leading agentic platform for insurance services led by serial founders Sean Chou and Sean Casey, and its subsequent follow-on financing led by Joseph Floyd of Emergence Capital 🚀 newsletter.equal.vc/p/introducing-…

Mega deck with consumer trends (Forerunner via Ali Afridi's weekly email) VERY early in AI x consumer; tons of interesting things happening forerunnerventures.com/research/our-2…

Full house at our inaugural Insurance Capital Summit Equal Ventures. Kicking off with opening remarks from Adam Chadroff

So excited to have Samantha Hughes joining us as the newest addition to team Equal. Still Day 1 when it comes to what we're building here at the firm and we're convinced Sam is going to be a critical addition as we supercharge how we operate. newsletter.equal.vc/p/welcoming-sa…

Excited to be announcing our 3rd (!) annual Climate Summit this September. Request an invite now before spots fill up. We had over 5k+ try to get in last year