PitchBook

“At the end of Q-three, we pulled some numbers, thanks to our friends at PitchBook, and there's been thirty-three billion raised by 157 funds. This is just in the U.S., And what's really interesting about this is we haven't seen this much money raised in one ye…”

“By our count, there's been almost seven billion dollars raised, and these are all U.S. Numbers, by 51 funds, and about 50 and a half billion raised by venture-backed companies.”

“The median age of a company that raises a pre-seed round is 1.2 years of age now. And the median age of a company that raises a seed round is 2.7.”

“Really, twenty-twenty-one and probably the first half of twenty-twenty-two, and now in twenty-twenty-three, we're down 90% from where we were at the peak, but we're really just back to the 2016, 20 17 trend line, right?”

“More than 50% hadn't returned one X capital. And so these are funds that are more than, that are 10 years old now, at least 10 years old now, hadn't returned one X capital. There was just 6.6% that had generated three X net DPI. And just 2.6% that had generate…”