The Venture Intelligence Blog

The month of May 2023 saw Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) Investments worth $1.7 Billion in Indian companies (across 63 transactions), shows data from Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on private company financials, transactions, and their valuations. The deal value fell by 68% compared to the immediate previous month (which saw $5.3 Billion being invested across 61 deals) and a 53% decline from May 2022 (which saw $3.6 Billion being invested across 121 deals). (Note: These figures include Venture Capital type investments, but exclude PE investments in Real Estate). The latest monthly figures take the total PE-VC investments during 2023 to $12.6 Billion (across 307 deals). Mega Deals May 2023 witnessed 5 PE investments worth $100 million or more, compared to 7 mega deals in the previous month and 11 such transactions in May 2022. Top PE-VC Investments in India (2023 YTD*) Exits Witness Decline PE-VC firms harvested $1.5 billion across 20 exit deals during May 2023...

Press Release Less than 1 in 3 startups that attract seed funding manage to raise follow-on funding in the form of a “Series A” round, a study by Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of data on private company financials, transactions and their valuations, shows.  Out of the over 2,500 startups that had raised seed funding between 2015-2022, only 29% (i.e., 734 companies) managed to raise a Series A round (typically the first round of institutional Venture Capital funding), the study titled “Series A Landscape Report” found. However, once a startup attracts a Series A round, its success ratio in raising subsequent rounds of capital, improves quite significantly. For instance, 50% of the companies that raised a Series A during the study period, succeeded in raising a Series B round. And, of the startups that attracted a Series B round, 62% succeeded in obtaining a Series C round. Of the Series C funded companies, 70% managed to raise rounds that were Series D and beyond. (Note...