: Silicon Valley misplaced its financial institution. Anticipate ‘zombie VCs’ and darkish occasions for startups.

The autumn of Silicon Valley Financial institution may result in the rise of zombies.

The financial institution’s implosion exacerbates cracks that had already been forming in enterprise funding and that may linger for not less than two years, a dozen leaders within the venture-capital discipline instructed MarketWatch in a sequence of interviews. This, they are saying, will result in darkish days for startups that want funding, a change within the relationship between venture-capital corporations and founders, and an increase in so-called zombie VCs.

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