In my anecdotal only experience it has gotten easier for founding teams who are from central casting - known schools / former employers, tech-first business ideas that VCs can understand, other stereotypes around what it means to look like and especially talk like the pattern of a successful founder.
There's just more money sloshing around and these funds have to deploy it somewhere.
Imho the outsized benefit to being from central casting is probably a sign of the end times for western civilization etc but that's the pattern I've seen from scattered anecdotes.
There's just more money sloshing around and these funds have to deploy it somewhere.
Imho the outsized benefit to being from central casting is probably a sign of the end times for western civilization etc but that's the pattern I've seen from scattered anecdotes.