Venture Funding

Recently released reports show that through the third quarter of 2022 approximately $290 billion is at the reach and behest of venture capital firms while the volume of investment has decreased about 10% from the record number of the prior year. Around $140 billion of the aforementioned amount raised was put together during the first half of the current year and represents an almost equal figure for that accumulated during the entirety of 2021.

The figures are in for the third quarter of 2022. They show that just a bit shy of $75 billion was generated by the world venture capital market during this period. This represents about a 35 percent quarterly decline and a drop of nearly 60% from the high-water level generated in Q4 of 2021. The number of deals seen came in at almost 8000 which was about 10% fewer than the previous period.

The final tally for the second quarter of 2022 is in and, to no surprise, there was another drop in overall global investment from the high marker level of Q3 2021. Overall numbers came in at about $120 billion dispersed across approximately 7600 deals. The U.S. and Asia accounted for 69% of these exchanges with the former once again heading allotments at 35% of all transactions. These numbers are still well above those seen from the same quarter in 2020, and there are particular trends that appear to bode well for certain groups of companies operating at select stages of growth.

Motion Chart of U.S. Venture Funded IPO’s from 1998-2008 Given the events of 2008, it seemed like now would be a good time to take a look at the U.S. IPO market for venture funded enterprises and see how it…