2025-08-17
The soaring valuations of the early 2020s are, finally, coming back to earth. This week, PitchBook data revealed that 15.9% of venture-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, marking a decade high. Read more in @AGarfinks latest issue of @TheTermSheet ⬇️
Fortune
PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds
Chime executives, along with family, celebrating the company's IPO at the Nasdaq. — The soaring valuations of the early 2020s are, finally, coming back to earth. Bluesky: @hsliwi...
2024-10-03
PE and VC dealmaking activity in Greater China is on pace for a 9-year low. https://pitchbook.com/... [image]
Bloomberg
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.
PE and VC dealmaking activity in Greater China is on pace for a 9-year low. https://pitchbook.com/... [image]
VentureBeat
PitchBook and the NVCA: global VC activity declined in Q3; VC investments in Asia hit $14.9B, the lowest figure since Q1 2017, impacted by China's deep decline
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
2020-01-16
A record 237 VC mega-deals were completed last year—up 12% from 2018. Download the Q4 2019 PitchBook-@NVCA Venture Monitor, created with @SVB_Financial and @cartainc, to get the details: https://pitchbook.com/...
Axios
PitchBook: West Coast's share of total US VC deal value dropped to 50.2% in 2019 vs. 62.3% in 2018; 78% of funding went to CA, NY, and MA, up from 75% in 2018
Venture capital investment is seeping out from Silicon Valley to the rest of the country, but the West Coast still dominates the market by a wide margin.