I am a cynic about VCs "Talking their books" but this is a little different:

- The stock market is off 20%.

- Very few IPOs.

- Many hot IPOs are under the offering price.

- Most of the public market investors that have entered late in the game (Fidelity, etc) are marking down their positions, and holding off on new investments.

Every solid company should have a "What would we need to do to get cashflow positive?" scenario. It may damage longterm valuation (cutting growth does that) but at least it gives the existing investors an option: "We can enter survival mode and do X, or you can fund us with Y, and we can do Z"