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It is the economy. Interest rates are up and that will hit startups first since investors have other options that are more likely to be better.


Interest rates hit their peak three years ago and have been falling since.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate


They are still up compared to 5 years ago. We also seem to be in a recession (or if not a real recession at least a slow down)




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