New data details the decline in Silicon Valley’s Q1 venture activity

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Today we’re unpacking some new data concerning what happened to Silicon Valley’s venture capital market in Q1, with a special focus on private financings towards the end of the three-month period. If the deterioration in deal volume we’ll go over today persists into Q2, the United States’ largest startup market could be in for more than a bump as the glob