The ride is wild. And if alt-meat entrepreneurs are feeling a bit green about the gills, well, it's easy to see why.
This five-year snippet of PitchBook's measure of investment capital demand compared with investment capital supply shows how volatile the market has been, with demand in 2023 outstripping available capital by as much as a factor of nearly 3x for later stage start-up companies.
In its accompanying analysis, PitchBook noted that, in…