Most active investors staying active, biotech and health care dominate largest rounds, and more - August 01, 2022

August 1, 2022 [Most active investors not slowing despite downturn]( What does the investment downturn look like for the most active venture investors or the firms that raised large funds in recent years? It turns out they haven’t slowed down by much. We looked closer at how these players–40 specifically–are investing in this environment. [Top 10 rounds: Health startups lead biotech’s big week]( Startups related to biotech and health care dominated the week, with five companies in that sector raising $50 million or more. Investors also continued to be enamored with the emerging Web3 space, minting a new unicorn while more than doubling the value of another. [VCs spent billions on scooters, with little to show for it]( Five years ago, the scooters came. These nimble little vehicles offered riders a quick trip to work or a quick trip to the ER, depending on who you asked. Scooter mania spread worldwide, fueled by more than $5 billion in total funding. Now, many scooter stocks have been tossed aside with Bird just a penny stock. What happened? [E-commerce software funding slows as shoppers pull back]( Online shopping carts look a bit emptier these days as cash-strapped consumers think before they click. This comes at a bad time for e-commerce software companies after investment in the sector hit an all-time high last year, reaching more than $4.8 billion in global venture funding. We take a look at five years of investment in these companies and their uncertain future. [What pullback? Lightspeed Venture doubled its early-stage fund]( Of its recently announced $7 billion fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners’ commitment to seed through Series B funding rounds has more than doubled from previous years to $2 billion. This distribution highlights an overall trend we’ve noticed of firms devoting more investment to early-stage deals. 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