Venture capital investment triples in January, 2015
The data below is for US-based companies with over $500K in funding, and is limited to investments by the top 500 venture capital firms (as measured by number of investments).
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Venture capital investment triples in January, 2015
With one week remaining in January, US venture capital invesment is already triple January, 2014 investment at $5.8 billion vs. $1.9 billion (on 164 investments vs. 174 in January, 2014).
A big increase in large funding rounds accounts for the increase. Last year at this time there were only two funding rounds worth over $100 million for a total value of $300 million in funding. So far this year there have been six funding rounds worth more than $100 million for a total value of $3.3 billion, led by the $1.6B Uber funding round and the $1.0 billion SpaceX funding round.
You can find an interactive version of this chart on TheStartup100.
The Week: 46 funding rounds worth $3.6B
The Uber and SpaceX rounds ($2.6B combined) accounted for about 70% of total funding.
Notable
- SaaS funding is off to a slow start with 23 rounds and $204 million in total funding vs. 35 rounds and $227 million in January, 2014. Avalara, a sales tax compliance solution, raised $42 million for the largest round year-to-date. Browse all SaaS fundings here.
- Year-to-date funding in Education looks high at $212 million, but $186 million is the Lynda.com funding round.
- With its $75 million funding round, Coinbase became the first Bitcoin company to reach $100MM in funding.
