US Venture Capital State Q2 2019

US Venture Capital State Q2 2019 Online Dashboard

The first half of 2019 was going smoothly for US VC, the overall deal value reached $66 billion. If it keeps going the same way, 2019 total deal value might exceed $100 billion the second time in a row. As for unicorn activity, in 2018 there were 126 deals closed with $46 billion value. In the first half of 2019, we already observed 76 deals with $20.7 billion. Unicorn deals number in 2019 can exceed 2018, however, it is not clear about the deal value, that can be proportionally smaller, but larger in total.

Investments to exit ratio is already larger in the first half of 2019, meaning that there were more investment deals than exits. In 2018 the ratio was 10.3, while in 2019 it reached 12.7. However, the number can decrease if there will be more exits happening during the rest of the year.

Angel & Seed and Early VC investments are still the most popular investment stages, where the number of deals has reached 2,000 and 1,600 in the first half of 2019 respectively.