On Wednesday, we published a quarterly update to our Creator Economy Database. We’ve now tracked four consecutive quarterly decreases in investments in creator startups—a downbeat sign for founders who had become used to seemingly unlimited check-writing over the last two years. Here are some other takeaways: 

Investors’ enthusiasm in crypto has plummeted: Creator startups that incorporate blockchain technologies into their products and business models raised 76% less than they did in the first quarter of the year.