#USA What market slump? These startups are raising money like its 1999

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With just two sentences, Jon Stein can make you question everything you thought you knew about the startup world in 2016.

“It was a good market to be raising,” Stein told Mashable on Tuesday morning, shortly after his financial services company Betterment announced raising a blockbuster $100 million round of venture capital funding. “I’ve never before seen so much interest.”

Hear that noise? It’s the sound of hundreds of startup founders weeping as they ride their hoverboards into the sunset.

For a brief period in 2014-2015, it seemed like investors, flush with confidence from a strong stock market and the success of businesses like Facebook and Amazon, were willing to hand over millions to any startup that compared itself to Uber in a pitch deck. Giant rounds, like Betterment’s, happened every week, if not more frequently.  Read more…

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