Mini golf makes top 10 rounds; Beyond Meat, Salesforce and Noom layoffs, and more - October 17, 2022

October 17, 2022 [Top 10 funding rounds: small dollars, fewer deals and mini golf]( Although it seemed like big rounds were making a comeback, that wasn’t the case last week as even the largest rounds were on the small side and there weren’t a lot of them. Investors continued to go big on biotech and another agtech company made the list, along with a mini golf startup—a first. [The week in layoffs: Beyond Meat, Salesforce, Noom join the list]( Tech layoffs have been prevalent throughout 2022 and it appears the trend will continue through the rest of the year. We update our weekly tracker of which companies have cut staff. [The supply chain keeps eating venture capital]( To look at the vast sums of venture capital going into supply chain-focused startups, it’s clear investors see an enormous market for next-generation platforms to ease various logistics pain points. [Global VC pullback is dramatic in Q3 2022]( The big global venture capital pullback we were all expecting is truly here. Venture and growth investors in private companies scaled back their investment pace significantly as the slump in the public markets stretched into the third quarter. [Self-driving tech startups are driving off a cliff]( A few years ago, investors raced to join the self-driving car tech craze. Now they’ve slammed on the brakes. Our analysis of 14 companies developing such technologies that went public in the past couple of years shows an average post-debut decline of more than 80%. [European funding falls as early stage weakens]( Funding to European startups in third-quarter 2022 continues to fall, slipping to its lowest point in nearly two years. Only four European unicorns joined the ranks, and early-stage funding saw the biggest dip quarter to quarter. We dig into the numbers. [Asia funding plummets in Q3]( Venture funding in Asia sank to its lowest level in 10 quarters as the region felt the full effects of the private market pullback. 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