The first quarter 2020 PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree Report for the first quarter of 2020 provides insights on the level of venture funding.
US venture capital deal activity has declined for three straight quarters, with 1,533 deals raising $28.6 billion, 1,399 deals raising $23.3 billion, and 1,271 deals raising $26.4 billion raised, respectively, in each of…
In a research paper written by Prof. Elizabeth Pollman, titled Startup Governance, and published through the Institute for Law and Economics, a joint research center of the Law School, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the author tackles the corporate…
During the first quarter of 2020, venture funding levels in the global healthcare and life sciences sector has increased 4% by dollars raised, quarter-over-quarter, despite the turbulent COVID-19 environment. According to a recent CB Insights report, healthcare companies raised $14.6 billion this past quarter in 1,156 deals. Deal volume decreased 6% quarter-over-quarter. The inverse…
CB Insights recently published a report, State of Fintech: Investment & Sector Trends to Watch, which provides a number of insights regarding 2019 industry trends.
Global fintech funding in 2019 fell short of the record highs in 2018, with 1,913 deals raising $34.5 million in proceeds in 2019. Quarterly fintech volumes throughout 2019 were…
CBInsights recently published its report on financial services corporate venture capital (CVC) activity. Globally, financial services CVC groups participated in $7.4 billion of funding in 2018 in 315 deals, with 2019 activity increasing to 368 deals and approximately $9.6 billion. Much of the growth has been in late-stage deals, which are Series D and later…
The third quarter of 2019 saw a slight decrease in venture private capital funding levels according to PwC and CB Insights’ recently published MoneyTree report. Approximately $25.9 billion was raised across 1,304 deals, bringing total capital raised in 2019 to $83 billion.
Staying private longer. Companies have taken advantage of raising large amounts of…
CBInsights has published its annual survey on corporate venture capital (CVC). Globally, 2,740 deals were completed raising $52.95 billion. This represented an increase of 32% in number of deals over 2017 and an increase of 47% in total capital raised over the preceding year. The average CVC deal size has reached an all-time high of…
In a recent paper titled, “Public or Private Venture Capital?” author Darren M. Ibrahim compares the relative benefits associated with reliance on private capital to fund start-ups and emerging companies with “public” venture capital in the form of securities exchanges like the London Alternative Investment Market, or AIM. The author looks at three such venture…
In “Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality,” authors Will Gornall and Ilya Strebulaev developed a valuation model for venture capital-backed companies that relies on terms of financing rounds that were gleaned from public filings. Using these reported valuations, the authors then calculate values for all share classes for each of the 135 US unicorns in…
CB Insights recently published its seventh annual Tech IPO Pipeline Report. The report notes that in 2013, the median time between first funding and IPO for U.S. VC-backed tech companies was 6.9 years compared to 10.1 years for tech companies that went public in 2018. As we have noted in previous posts, tech…
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