VENTURING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC

Miller discusses that as the covid-19 pandemic hit the US, experts throughout the venture capital world predicted that investments in startups would drop off, that the VCs - venture capital firms - would opt to reserve cash rather than invest it in case they had to shore up the finances of startups they already had a stake in As the pandemic took hold in March 2020, venture investing dropped off steeply, according to a midyear special report by Silicon Valley Bank, known for its tallies of venture investments The trend of large aerospace corporations investing in startups began over a decade ago and took off during the past few years, when some of the major contractors realized how furiously startups were innovating