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Maryam Haque

NVCA 2017 Yearbook: The Go-To Resource on the Venture Ecosystem

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We are pleased to present the 2017 NVCA Yearbook, documenting trends and analysis of venture capital activity in the United States from the past year and capturing historical data and information about venture’s role in fueling entrepreneurship in America.

What is the NVCA Yearbook?

Now in its 20th year, the NVCA Yearbook is an annual publication that provides statistics on the size and impact of the U.S. venture industry, investments into startups, capital raised and managed by venture capital firms, and exit activity. The Yearbook is an indispensable resource for anyone working in venture capital and has long been seen as the benchmark for tracking and analyzing venture capital activity from year-to-year. Read more

Devin Miller

Superpower vs Upstart: The Super Bowl’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

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On Sunday night, the New England Patriots clash with the Atlanta Falcons in a Super Bowl matchup that pits two football franchises with wildly different recent histories.  The Patriots come into the game as the most successful, and to some infamous, NFL franchise over the last 16 years.  The coach/quarterback combination of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady has created one of sport’s most impressive modern dynasties, with a combined 7 Super Bowl appearances (including 4 wins so far), 14 division titles, and 214 combined regular season and playoff victories.

The Falcons by comparison have had spikes of success over the last decade and a half, with peaks of 7 playoff appearances over the last 16 seasons, but also significant valleys in 8 seasons without a winning record.  However, this season the Falcons were the second seed in the NFC Conference and had one of the most explosive offenses in NFL history, rivaling the offensive firepower of the 2007 Patriots team that went undefeated in the regular season that year.

This dynamic sets up the Super Bowl as a contest between a perennial heavyweight and a scrappy contender, an empire against a rebellion, or whatever other David vs Goliath metaphor you can think of. Read more

Maryam Haque

Reflecting on 2016: Five Takeaways from the Q4 2016 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor

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Earlier this month, we released the Q4 2016 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, a review of the U.S. venture capital ecosystem’s fourth quarter and year-end trends for 2016.  Between the Presidential inauguration, meetings with the Trump transition team, and various other industry data releases, it has been a busy start to 2017 for NVCA.  So in case you may have missed it, here are some helpful resources related to the report:

  • PDF copy of Venture Monitor (link)
  • Supporting XLS data pack of Venture Monitor (link)
  • View the PPT deck and a copy of the Q4 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor webinar (link) [Note: available only to NVCA members.]

The report unpacks a large number of trends and data points on the venture industry, so we have highlighted five major trends below that caught our eye: Read more

NVCA-Deloitte Human Capital Survey: A New Approach to Diversity & Inclusion Research

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We just released our diversity study. Our study is different. We set out to survey all VC firms active in the U.S. to establish a benchmark of the current demographics of the industry and to take a closer look at firms’ talent management practices.

If you’ve spoken with a member of the NVCA staff over the past two years or one of our Board Members, the topic of diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the venture capital industry has likely come up. Since the launch of NVCA’s Diversity Task Force in December 2014, NVCA staff, its Board, and its members have focused on building a more inclusive innovation ecosystem. In our report Building a More Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem this summer, we outlined many proactive NVCA efforts and industry resources, highlighted a few firms who are leading the pack in terms of diversity initiatives, and referenced third-party data on D&I in VC. Read more

Maryam Haque

New Data Provider: Greater Capabilities, Added Benefits

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In case you missed it, we announced exciting news this week – PitchBook is now the official data provider of NVCA!  Everyone on staff at NVCA is excited to begin this new partnership, but this is particularly exciting for me since my day-to-day at NVCA involves being immersed in research and data related to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.  As the national trade body of the venture capital community, NVCA frequently receives inquiries related to data and research from a wide range of stakeholders, including the media, policymakers, academics, entrepreneurs, limited partners, and venture capital firms (both NVCA members and non-members).  In essence, NVCA is recognized as the go-to place for information on the venture industry, and the statistics we release in coordination with our data provider have become the industry standard. Read more

Maryam Haque

VC Research Spotlight: How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

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What’s the secret sauce for venture capital investing?  Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer, but it’s not surprising that the topic has piqued the interest of a number of academics.  A recently-released Stanford University Graduate School of Business paper – “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” – assesses the VC decision making process to better understand what venture capitalists (VCs) do and why they have been successful.  The study examines eight areas of VC decision making: deal sourcing; investment decisions; valuation; deal structure; post-investment value-added; exits; internal organization of firms; and relationships with limited partners.

About 900 institutional VCs at 681 firms were surveyed (including many NVCA members), and the findings shed light on the complex world of venture investors.  At a high-level, two things stand out: 1) it is no understatement that VCs make lots of critical decisions across multiple levels of management – investments, portfolio companies, firm-level, and LPs; and 2) there isn’t a “one-size-fits-all” approach – VC practices vary across industry, stage, geography, and past success.

Some highlights of the paper’s findings: Read more

Maryam Haque

A Busy Year for Venture Capital: NVCA’s 2016 Yearbook Review

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We’re excited to release the 2016 NVCA Yearbook! While the thought of a “yearbook” may bring back painful memories of awkward high school photos, the NVCA Yearbook features statistics and insights on the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and further highlights the key role of industry data in quantifying the powerful economic force that is venture capital.

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Maryam Haque

Super Tuesday Ecosystems: Examining venture investment in each of the 13 Super Tuesday primary states

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If it’s Tuesday, it’s primary day somewhere.  But this isn’t just any primary day, it’s Super Tuesday!  Today, voters in 13 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming) will cast ballots for their preferred candidate in the Democratic and Republican primaries.

As we recently detailed in our annual reporting of venture capital investment by MSA, you don’t have to be an entrepreneur living in a specific city, state or region to receive venture capital investment.  There are pockets of innovation in local entrepreneurial ecosystems in all corners of our country. Read more

NVCA provides key data and, more importantly, the context

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Conner Forrest of TechRepublic published an article today, How 2014 could become the year of the startup, making the case that we could see a strong year for startups due to a rise in venture capital investment and exits through mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.

Our most recent quarterly PwC/NVCA MoneyTree™ Report based on data provided by Thomson Reuters reported that in the first quarter of 2014, venture capital activity increased from the previous quarter with $9.5 billion invested in 951 deals. Read more

Strong year for Biotech IPOs Spurs Optimism for 2014

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As the flood of 2013 recaps and 2014 predictions begins to recede, one storyline continues to spur optimism among venture capitalists: the continued improvement in the venture-backed IPO market. In no sector was this trend more notable than in biotechnology.  With 42 IPOs, biotech provided nearly half of the venture-backed total in 2013. In fact, 2013 saw more biotech IPOs than the last five years combined.

Many factors impact the exit environment for venture-backed companies in a given year. But we believe that two NVCA policy initiatives in 2012 helped pave the way for biotech’s resurgence in 2013. The first is the JOBS Act of 2012, which aimed to ease the cost and regulatory burdens faced by small, innovative startups looking to go public. This past year, the average biotech IPO raised $83 million, which is exactly the type of offering that the JOBS Act’s On-Ramp was designed to enable. Read more

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