Barely two weeks In the year 2024, the startup news machine is running at full capacity. A quick scan of TechCrunch headlines reveals venture capital funds adding new capital, and startups that have raised a lot of money or are in the process of closing deals to raise a lot of money.
We’ve been reviewing the success of venture capital investing around the world over the past few days, but today we wanted to provide a more comprehensive look at the numbers.
The TechCrunch+ team did the planning Data from Pitchbook On venture capital investment flows around the world, and in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The following data visualizations include eight full quarters of data, showing the decline from 2021 project overruns through the end of 2023.
We’ll start with the global picture, then talk about how each region is performing.
Global venture capital results
This chart doesn’t look very interesting at first glance. It is clear that there has been a steady decline in investment accompanied by a corresponding decline in total deal volume since the first quarter of 2022. But we were left with a bearish impression when we first looked at the latest numbers, because investment investment in 2023 ($345.7 billion) was down to levels Which we last saw in 2018 and 2019, before the outbreak of the pandemic.
However, Q4 2023 was particularly bad: Q4 2017 was the last time we saw a significant decline in venture investment in the last three months of the year. This is not a good thing, especially with investment investment continuing to decline in each quarter of 2023. Isn’t 2024 the comeback year many hope it will be?