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Katie Roof @ The Information 2 place · today 20:35 EDT

The Problem With Fast Follows

How soon is too soon to raise a new funding round?I’ve been covering venture capital long enough (more than a decade!) to remember that the hottest startups used to raise financing every 12-18 months. Then it was 9-12 months. Then 6-9 months. And now…two months? Two weeks? Recently, a wave of both early and late stage startups have been raising new rounds of capital right after closing other ones, in what some are calling “fast follows.” The latest example is Core Automation, a startup incorporated by a sta

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