Crypto startups scaring away VCs with 80x valuations: 10T Holdings

Too many crypto startups are pricing themselves out of venture capital funding by chasing valuations far exceeding their revenues, according to Dan Tapeiro, the CEO of crypto-focused venture capital firm 10T Holdings. “For some reason, founders and CEOs think that they should be raising capital at 50 to 80 times revenue. So that makes it very hard for us to make a return for our liquidity providers,” Tapeiro said while speaking in a panel discussion at the Consensus conference in Toronto on May 14. “So a lot of those deals we just pass almost automatically, even businesses that we really like, we won't invest in if the price isn't reasonable in the beginning source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-startup-80x-valuations-push-away-vc-funding?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound