What has been happening with the VC world in 2020, and especially in Q4 2020?
According to Crunchbase, the startup world finished 2020 in a much stronger position than the one they started the year in. #Global #venture funding up 4% year over year to $300 billion. The tech boom was led by the largest companies in the space, with Apple hitting a valuation of more than $2 trillion in August for the first time, and Amazon and Google cresting $1 trillion.
Late-stage ๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐๐ก, ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ช๐๐๐จ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐จ ๐พ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ง๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐๐จ, ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ 8% ๐ฎ๐๐๐ง ๐ค๐ซ๐๐ง ๐ฎ๐๐๐ง. Private equity in venture-backed companies grew even more, at 73% year over year.
If we look at Q4 of 2020, we can see that the pandemic affected Q1, but by Q4 funding was back on track.
Notable global public market debuts in Q4 2020:
๐ Airbnb,
๐ DoorDash,
๐ Opendoor,
๐ Wish.
The most active investors were:
โก Accel with 114 investments,
โก Sequoia Capital with 101 investments,
โก Andreessen Horowitz with 91 investments.
With an interesting year behind us, we can expect an invier higher amounts being invested into startups. With all the digitalization happening, there are certainly going to be a lot of new ones born as well.
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