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Over 20K startup employees lose jobs globally, India and US top list
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IANS | 02 Jun, 2022
As VC money disappears amid economic slowdown, tech startups have laid
off over 20,000 employees the world over since April, while more than
8,000 employees have lost jobs at the Indian startups led by edtech
platforms.
According to layoff aggregator Layoffs.fyi,
at least 20,514 people have lost their jobs at tech startups globally
since April globally and the US is leading the race.
The number
doubled over the past two weeks, indicating that the labour market for
the sector has taken a turn for the worse, reports Nikkei Asia.
Ironically,
this figure does not take contractual workers into accounts which have
lost their jobs in the startup funding winter.
The job loss has reached two-year high among the startup ecosystem that once churned out unicorns after unicorns.
More
than 15,000 people working in the technology sector lost their job in
the month of May alone, as global macro-economic factors hit companies,
especially startups.
According to layoff aggregator layoffs.fyi, more than 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs this month, reports TechCrunch.
Since
March 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic started, more than 1.3 lakh
employees have been laid off by around 718 startups globally.
Tech
companies are facing multiple issues like rising inflation, high
interest rates, economic slowdown and the Russia-Ukraine war.
The situation is set to get worse with recession looming and funding drying up.
Several
large investment firms like Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture
Partners, Craft Ventures, and Y Combinator etc have sent memos and
footnotes to their portfolio companies and startups on how to endure the
ongoing crisis.
The VC firms are advising startups to focus on
sustainable growth, reduce cash burn, cut costs and understand that an
economic recovery may be 18-24 months away.
With capital becoming scarce, Sequoia Capital told its founders' community to tighten the belt and focus on profitability.
Realising
that 'funding winter' has finally set in after a strong rally of more
than two years in the pandemic that allowed Internet-driven startups to
grow exponentially across the spectrum, large investment firms are now
parking their funds in Blockchain/Web3.0 and gaming-based startups.
Binance
Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of leading cryptocurrency
exchange Binance, has announced the closing of a $500 million investment
fund to boost Blockchain, Web3.0 and value-building technologies.
The
new fund will invest in projects that can extend the use cases of
cryptocurrencies and drive the adoption of Web3.0 and Blockchain
technologies.
Earlier, US-based investment firm Andreessen
Horowitz (A16Z) announced two new funds -- a massive $4.5 billion fund
for crypto and Blockchain companies and Web3.0 startups and a $600
million 'Games Fund One' that is exclusively focused on the gaming
industry.
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