▶ FOR THE GLOBAL start-up and venture capital (VC) community, it was a chaotic weekend. After Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)—the trusted banking partner of the tech ecosystem—went down on March 10, with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) seizing its assets, scores of founders and investors who had hundreds of millions of dollars locked into deposits, scrambled to make sense of it all.
There was panic as immediate working