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Total capital invested into European tech in 2017 will comfortably exceed the record-breaking levels of 2016
Capital invested ($B) and # of deals, annual, 2012 to 2017
Europe has seen more than $3B invested per quarter for 11 consecutive quarters
Capital invested ($B) and # of deals per quarter
There’s capital out there for starting and scaling companies at a level that has not been seen in Europe historically. We’ve observed growth in the number of funds across early and growth stage. And with a maturing ecosystem, we’re seeing increased investment from US and Asia for scaling companies and a resurgence of the ‘mega-round’ with companies raising more than $100m.
There has been an increase in capital invested and number of deals for all round sizes, except for <$2M rounds, which declined slightly in 2017
Capital invested ($M) and # of deals by round size
We are seeing the first indications of a stabilisation in the # of earliest stage funding rounds, reflecting a global trend
- 12%
- decline in # of deals between $0-2M year-on-year
It’s nothing like when I launched, when my boss said to me ‘Brent, have you ever come across two people under 30 who’ve raised over $1million from a business plan?’ and we were like ‘No!’. Now we can think of hundreds of people - it’s much better now, there are many more support networks and there is a monetisation system out there for entrepreneurs.
