PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor

US VC sends mixed signals as deal activity and fundraising diverge 

The third quarter of 2022 saw a less resilient venture landscape in the US compared with the first half of the year. Deal activity across all stages recorded signs of distress, and the market continued to become increasingly consolidated with fewer exits than at any time in recent history.

Dry powder remains at the highest level in our dataset, after years of record fundraising. This capital will help support seed and early-stage investment, but it is not likely to come to the rescue of highly valued, late-stage companies that are seeing an enormous decline in capital availability.

The latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, sponsored by Insperity and J.P. Morgan, details how dealmaking, exits, fundraising and valuations responded to rising interest rates and complicated macroeconomic trends during Q3.

Key takeaways:

• Venture-backed companies collected nearly $43 billion during Q3. The figure is below the heights of 2021 and early 2022 but above historical averages—representing a durable, positive trend in the industry.
• On the exit front, there have been just 59 public listings so far this year, compared with 303 in 2021 and 145 in 2020.
• While overall fundraising figures are strong, established managers received the lion’s share of commitments while emerging GPs struggled. 

 

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