If you want a pulse check on where the venture capital industry is at, consider the software supply chain security startup Chainguard, which has raised $500 million across two rounds in less than a year. "We've never had a fundraising deck," Ryan Carlson, president of Chainguard, said yesterday on the Future of Venture Capital insight exchange at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Park City, Utah. He added later: "We're not going to create a deck next time either."