Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, and positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V
Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more
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PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50%+; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024
The global venture capital market hit its second-highest annual total on record in 2025, with the year seeing $512 billion in deal value …
Architect Partners: Q1 2025 was a record quarter for crypto M&A with 61 deals and $2.2B in total deal value, including Kraken's $1.5B acquisition of NinjaTrader
A false dawn for M&A? — Is the crypto M&A boom for real? We asked Casper Johansen, partner at The Spartan Group, a digital assets advisory firm.
Crunchbase: global VC funding reached $113B in Q1 2025, up 54% YoY, buoyed by OpenAI's $40B deal; PitchBook says 77% of US deal value in Q1 2025 went to AI
Thanks Mostly to One Mammoth AI Deal Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Q1 2025 global VC investment deals and deal amounts take a dip versus a year ago | NVCA Katherine Ross / Blockworks : Venture capita...
The defense industry is poised for a deal surge as firms expand in AI, drones, and space systems; Bain: VC deal value in the sector is up 18x in the past decade
Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times :
PitchBook: tech as a percentage of total private equity deal value was 28.3% in Q3, up from 18.7% in Q2, as VC firms and tech startups turn to PE for liquidity
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal :
PitchBook: Q3 US VC investments rose ~8% YoY to $37.9B across 3,777 deals; AI startups got 36% of the deal value and 27% of the deal count from Q1 to Q3 2024
Artificial intelligence firms received more than one-third of the funds in the third quarter.
All Raise: ~18% of US VC firms have at least one female partner, double from 2018; PitchBook says female founders had almost 28% of total US deal value in 2023
All Raise: ~18% of US VC firms have one or more female partners, double from 2018; PitchBook says female founders secured ~28% of total US deal value in 2023
- Advocacy group reports women partners are part of more firms — All Raise CEO says progress at risk from diversity criticisms