In my view, the global trend of  “startups acquiring startups” is almost entirely VC-driven, most commonly on the sell-side but also on the acquirer/buy-side. More than 80% of acquired VC-backed startups sold to another startup since the beginning of 2023, equating to 766 companies globally, ac...

Credit: Rob Moffat, Partner at Balderton Capital as published on sifted It is 10pm on Wednesday, Feb 21. You are a founder raising funding. You have got to know VCs over the last few years and had increasingly intense conversations with them over the past few weeks. They have asked you lots of due d...