'I'm running the business as if I will never fundraise again,' says Crunchbase CEO

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It’s been just over three weeks since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation swept in after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and saved depositors. But the venture capital industry is still reeling from the near-catastrophe.

“I'm very much in the bearish camp,” Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell told me during a conversation on Friday. “We're still not out of it.”