
Venture capitalists are desperate for exits right now. But the bad news? Recent scrutiny from agencies like the Federal Trade Commission could make tech deals take even longer to close moving forward.
“I think the assumption is that the big buyers—the Big Tech buyers—are going to have painfully long processes,” Chelsea Stoner, general partner at Battery Ventures, said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Deer Valley, Utah, this week. “I think that's just going to even increase from there.”