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Hello and welcome<\/span> back to The Exchange\u2019s weekend missive. If you are reading this on and want to get the letter in your inbox, head here.<\/p>\n Your regular host Anna Heim<\/a> is off this week on a much-deserved vacation, so I\u2019m stepping back into my old role as newsletter scribe. It\u2019s good fun to write this note, frankly, so thanks for having me.<\/p>\n Today we\u2019re taking a look at the good news from the venture market we covered this week, but with an added global perspective. We\u2019re broadening our lens a bit to get more general figures to better understand if the good news from the United States is holding up elsewhere. Call it a look abroad in Anna\u2019s honor. To work! \u2014 Alex<\/a><\/p>\n In the United States, venture capital activity is holding up better than we anticipated. That\u2019s good. Perhaps even better, venture interest in software startups is looking downright robust. That matters because most startups are software companies; if software startups are healthy, then upstart tech companies in general are doing OK. And given the United States\u2019 weighty influence on startups overall, then startups must be OK everywhere, right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Good<\/h2>\n