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The investment climate for tech start-ups has undergone dramatic shifts over the last few years.

Since roughly 2008, institutional VCs have taken a hit, as angels, super angels and – to a lesser degree – accelerators and incubators altered the investment landscape with fast-moving seed and early-stage deals that VCs typically didn’t want. 

As these other investors eventually began to compete for deals classically scored by institutional firms, the VC world became divided between the have’s and the have-not’s in terms of where LP dollars were flowing, with a handful of firms raising enormous rounds, with some unable to raise funds and being labeled the “walking dead”.

But times have changed, according to our just-released survey of startup company CEOs. 

To read the full, original article click on this link: VatorNews - VCs rise to the top in start-up funding survey