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Major venture investors kept dealmaking active as quarterly funding fell

Many of the most active venture investors completed more deals in the third quarter even as aggregate funding declined, Crunchbase reports. Its rankings put Y Combinator first for post-seed participation and Insight Partners first for lead rounds. The divergence shows why deal counts and dollars tell different stories.

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  1. Crunchbase recorded 45 post-seed participations by Y Combinator.
  2. Its estimate of lead-investor activity uses financing-round data, not disclosed checks written by each firm.

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