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On (4), it looks like the median seed valuation is still hovering around $25M based on AngelList statistics: https://stack.angellist.com/valuations

Part of the difficulty in parsing public versus private company valuations is due to the time constant: It takes a while for private companies to get desperate, whereas public companies have a real-time bead on investor sentiment.

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Angellists data is flawed here—- you ideally want to look at seeds that are completely new or coming from sub $2 million pre-seeds. They include seed extensions, seed extension extensions, high priced note extension to seed rounds, etc. and when the market slows down you see a lot of extension rounds which pushes that number up but those are not really new seed rounds.

There are a host of other way their data is flawed as well :) but that’s a much longer topic.

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