Close Menu
Gossips Today
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Healthcare
  • Personal Finance
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Business
  • Recipes
What's Hot

When You Check in for a Flight Matters—Here’s Why

Airstream’s new Frank Lloyd Wright trailer is a match made in midcentury heaven

After its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack

Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
Saturday, June 7
Gossips Today
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
  • Tech & Innovation

    After its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack

    June 7, 2025

    Meet the Finalists: VivaTech’s 5 Most Visionary Startups of 2025

    June 7, 2025

    Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment fees

    June 6, 2025

    Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARR

    June 6, 2025

    Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z

    June 5, 2025
  • Healthcare

    Ransomware group linked to cyberattack on Kettering Health

    June 7, 2025

    Public health scholars ask HHS to reject Georgia Medicaid work requirement extension

    June 7, 2025

    Healthcare organizations could be unprepared to adopt generative AI: survey

    June 6, 2025

    Nearly 11M would become uninsured under GOP reconciliation bill: CBO

    June 6, 2025

    Amazon Pharmacy’s PillPack expands to Medicare patients

    June 5, 2025
  • Personal Finance

    16 Budgeting Tips to Manage Your Money Better

    May 28, 2025

    How to Stick to a Budget

    May 20, 2025

    4 Steps to Navigate Marriage and Debt

    May 11, 2025

    Buying a Fixer-Upper Home: What to Know

    May 10, 2025

    How to Talk to Your Spouse About Money

    May 10, 2025
  • Lifestyle

    16 Father’s Day Gift Ideas He (or You) Will Love

    June 4, 2025

    The Getup: Sand

    May 25, 2025

    Your Summer Style Starts Here: 17 Memorial Day Sale Picks to Grab Now + 4 Getups

    May 24, 2025

    3 Fixes If You Hate the Way Your Pants Fit (That Have Nothing to Do with Your Waist Size)

    May 14, 2025

    On Sale Now: 9 Nike Sneakers Under $100 You’ll Want to Wear All Summer

    May 10, 2025
  • Travel

    When You Check in for a Flight Matters—Here’s Why

    June 7, 2025

    Amazon Is Kicking Off Summer With Travel Deals Up to 89% Off This Month—Prices Start at Just $8

    June 7, 2025

    Disney Has Asian American Culture Hidden in Plain Sight—How to Find the Best Eats, Experiences, and More

    June 6, 2025

    Birkenstock Sandals and Comfy Clarks Shoes Are Up to 74% Off in This Secret Summer Sale

    June 6, 2025

    This Small Town in Virginia Is a U.S. Dupe for the English Countryside—Here's How to Visit

    June 5, 2025
  • Business

    Airstream’s new Frank Lloyd Wright trailer is a match made in midcentury heaven

    June 7, 2025

    Supersonic air travel gets green light in U.S. after 50-year ban lifted

    June 7, 2025

    Rite Aid store closures update: Latest list includes doomed locations in California, Washington, and Oregon

    June 6, 2025

    We can reshore American manufacturing

    June 6, 2025

    How AI is reshaping the fields of African farmers

    June 5, 2025
  • Recipes

    slushy paper plane

    June 6, 2025

    one-pan ditalini and peas

    May 29, 2025

    eggs florentine

    May 20, 2025

    challah french toast

    May 6, 2025

    charred salt and vinegar cabbage

    April 25, 2025
Gossips Today
  • Tech & Innovation
  • Healthcare
  • Personal Finance
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Business
  • Recipes
Technology & Innovation

What will this year bring in VC? We asked a few investors

gossipstodayBy gossipstodayJanuary 4, 2025No Comments8 Mins Read
Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Copy Link Telegram LinkedIn Tumblr Email
What Will This Year Bring In Vc? We Asked A
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

A new year brings with it hope for a better tomorrow — kind of, at least. In the world of venture capital, nothing is quite predictable. The number of firms in the U.S. has taken a sharp dip as risk-averse institutional investors splash money on only the biggest names in Silicon Valley, as reported by the Financial Times. AI is the only category that seems to matter, and that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. But the new year has just started, and perhaps so has the impetus for change. 

We spoke to some VCs to gather their predictions on the new year — the good, the bad, and what might end up being the unexpected.

Their responses have been edited and shortened for clarity.

What are your good and bad venture predictions for 2025?

Nekeshia Woods, managing partner at Parkway Venture Capital 

The good: As wealthy individuals lower their return expectations for fixed income and cash equivalents, they will look more aggressively to private markets for outsized returns. This channel is expected to invest over $7 trillion in private markets by 2033. In response to this expected influx of capital, we have seen large wealth and asset managers use venture capital as a differentiating strategy among their private market offerings. These institutions have positioned venture to be a strategy where they can offer access to the best deals while capturing a portion of the $7 trillion expected to be invested in private markets through net new flows. Fund managers will simultaneously partner with these institutions to gain access to a new set of LPs that create a new, consistent, and long-term capital stream for their funds.

More good: We expect the AI field to start seeing consolidation, primarily through acquisition, in areas where AI can become a commodity, like large language models. The AI companies that will make it to be leaders in their field are opening new market segments and owning proprietary data. 

Gabby Cazeau, partner at Harlem Capital

The good: The IPO market will fully reopen, and we’ll see some big-name IPOs bring much-needed liquidity. That’s a win for everyone. On the early-stage side, investment pacing will pick up, maybe not to 2021 levels, but certainly more than 2022-2024. It feels like 2025 will be a banner year for venture and hopefully the official start of the next bull run.

The bad: 2025 will be a make-or-break year for AI startups selling to enterprises. A lot of AI startups have grown quickly but are still stuck in the “experimental” phase, living on innovation budgets instead of being part of core software spend. Many won’t make the leap, leaving a number of startups on the chopping block as churn and slow growth take over.

Triin Linamagi, founding partner at Sie Ventures

The good: The emergence of solo GPs and angel funds will drive increased investment into earlier-stage companies — a much-needed evolution for the venture capital ecosystem. 

We’ll see more specialized and well-defined investment approaches, with industry-specific, knowledgeable investors providing meaningful value to founders. This shift is not only beneficial for startups but is also likely to deliver better returns for investors. Capital allocation to diverse founding teams will continue to grow, particularly in sectors like sustainability and healthcare, where diverse perspectives can drive innovation and impact.

The bad: Meaningful M&A or IPO activity is unlikely until late 2025 as market conditions remain challenging. Limited partners will remain hesitant to deploy capital, waiting for improved distribution to paid-in capital metrics before committing to new funds.

Michael Basch, founder and general partner at Atento Capital

The good: Long-awaited increased liquidity for LPs with an opening of the IPO and M&A markets. More funds and companies taking secondaries as well. A reset of expectations of the zombie companies that are profitable not going to have the outcomes the VCs on the cap table underwrote, selling at a more grounded price to private equity. Consolidation and roll-ups in oversaturated spaces (e.g., GLP-1s).

The bad: Continued falling unicorns that have significant reset in valuations due to market resizing and growth expectations resetting. 

Austin Clements, managing partner at Slauson & Co. 

The good: IPO markets will reopen following the success of Service Titan, as will M&A activity for private companies. Finally realizing these gains will increase liquidity for the LPs behind many venture capital firms. This will lead to LPs committing to more new funds — more venture funds than in years past. 

The bad: [LPs] may be more reluctant to commit to new fund managers after seeing a lot of undisciplined behavior in the last cycle. The unfortunate side effect is that some of the most innovative strategies will have a lot of trouble getting funded.

What are some trends that you think will remain? Which ones will go?

Woods

What will stay: Dealmaking will remain favorable to investors with dry powder. Investors will continue to move away from looking at products using [the] “number of users” as a key consideration and move toward booked revenues, client pipeline, and costs as key considerations prior to investing. The pace of investing will also maintain this investor-friendly environment. We do not expect venture firms to return to the frenzied pace of investing experienced for the past couple of years but instead continue with a balanced approach.

What will go: The outlook for IPO activity is moderately positive. Founder-renewed confidence in the public markets and comps coupled with dwindling cash runways and those high-valued companies that have survived the recent fundraising constraints, have right-sized their valuations to align more closely with the market. We believe that the consumer is also prime for investing in small-cap stocks, given the mega-cap technology stocks that have moved U.S. indexes into all-time highs and returned tremendous shareholder value. While there are still a number of companies whose valuations are not yet tracking to the market there are some, primarily in the tech space, that are ready for the public market.

Cazeau

What will stay: Small teams scaling revenue. We’re seeing teams of just one to three people hitting $2 million+ ARR using AI tools — doing more with less and doing it better than ever. This kind of growth was unheard of before 2024 and highlights how much startups are automating internally with new software tools. The big question now is how these teams will scale and build strong organizations, but it’s impressive to see such growth with such a lean setup.

We’ll also see a resurgence in investment around reskilling — platforms addressing talent shortages in skilled trades, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, and other areas that software can’t automate away.

Linamagi 

What will stay: AI is here to stay. The widespread deployment of AI in 2024 marked a significant shift, and I believe this momentum will only grow. While it offers immense opportunities — such as enhancing decision-making, improving deal sourcing, and streamlining operations — it also presents challenges. For instance, human intuition and experience remain vital, particularly when evaluating founding teams and their dynamics. This evolution will require LPs to think more critically about how they select managers and construct their portfolios.

What will go: The spray-and-pray investment approach. I expect we’ll see fewer deals but with greater diligence and meaningful value-add from investors. This trend, already evident in 2024, signals the end of the growth-at-all-costs mentality. Instead, investors will prioritize paths to profitability and sustainable business models, which will continue to be the hallmark of attractive opportunities.

Basch

What will stay: [The] perceived short list of winners in the AI space will continue to command significant investor attention at premium valuations. [There will be a] continued trend of VC-backed companies shuttering as capital markets [become] more selective in terms of funding [and the] continued trend [of] VCs, especially seed stage, [being] unable to raise new funds due to rough performing 2020 or 2021 vintages.

Clements 

What will go: The last cycle was a deep shift to more investors backing enterprise SaaS companies and fewer backing consumer applications. I think this will start to reverse as AI creates more applications for consumers that just weren’t possible a few years ago. Consumer tech will make a welcome comeback in 2025. 

What is something unexpected you think could happen in 2025 in the world of venture and startups?

Cazeau

We could see mergers or even closures of some big-name unicorns, many of which have been industry darlings for years. These companies have just enough cash to make it to 2025, but not enough growth to go any further. We’re already seeing some consolidation, and this will likely accelerate into 2025.

Linamagi

A significant climate-related disaster, geopolitical conflict, or economic shock has the potential to fundamentally reshape the startup and VC landscape. 

Basch

A surge in venture dollars looking at hard technology, as software becomes commoditized due to generative AI. Hard tech as defined by bio, tech, hardware, other forms of deep tech taking center stage. [There will also be] a significant increase in companies raising only a seed round and having a sub-$100 million exit in sub-three years of existence — revealing a new math that could potentially work for founders and the VCs due to companies with distribution quickly acquiring top products that will complement their existing offering.

Clements

Something unexpected is that OpenAI could convert to a for-profit entity just for Microsoft to be able to acquire it in the largest acquisition ever.

asked bring investors Year
Follow on Google News Follow on Flipboard
Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email Copy Link
Previous ArticleIndependent Health settles with Justice Department over alleged Medicare Advantage upcoding
Next Article Marketing for cybersecurity tech is  often fear-based. Here’s how that backfires
admin
gossipstoday
  • Website

Related Posts

After its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack

June 7, 2025

Meet the Finalists: VivaTech’s 5 Most Visionary Startups of 2025

June 7, 2025

Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment fees

June 6, 2025
Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

Demo
Trending Now

When You Check in for a Flight Matters—Here’s Why

Airstream’s new Frank Lloyd Wright trailer is a match made in midcentury heaven

After its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack

Ransomware group linked to cyberattack on Kettering Health

Latest Posts

When You Check in for a Flight Matters—Here’s Why

June 7, 2025

Airstream’s new Frank Lloyd Wright trailer is a match made in midcentury heaven

June 7, 2025

After its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack

June 7, 2025

Subscribe to News

Subscribe to our newsletter and stay updated with the latest news and exclusive offers.

Advertisement
Demo
Black And Beige Minimalist Elegant Cosmetics Logo (4) (1)
Facebook X (Twitter) Pinterest Vimeo WhatsApp TikTok Instagram

Categories

  • Tech & Innovation
  • Health & Wellness
  • Personal Finance
  • Lifestyle & Productivity

Company

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise With Us

Services

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Disclaimer

Subscribe to Updates

© 2025 Gossips Today. All Right Reserved.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.