In 2024, mental health ventures leveraging AI attracted a total funding of around *** billion U.S. dollars worldwide. This accounted for ** percent of all venture capital investment in the mental health sector. The share of investment in mental health ventures with AI generally decreased since 2020, when ** percent of all VC investment were deployed to ventures with AI.

Venture capital (VC) is the financing of start-ups and small businesses by investment banks, private investors and other financial institutions. As a form of private equity funding, venture capitalists try to assess and invest in startups that will have a long-term return potential. In 2020, North America had the highest value of VC deal funding globally, totaling over *** billion U.S. dollars in financing. How many VC deals have been completed in each region? In 2020, North America dominated the VC financing scene in terms of the value of deals closed that year, followed by Asia and then Europe. Similarly, the highest volume of VC financing deals was also closed in North America – just under ***** deals in total. Following the pattern of deal value, Asia had the second-highest number of VC financing deals closed, and Europe the third-highest. Impact of COVID-19 on stock indices worldwide As of the first quarter of 2021, the internet industry in the U.S. saw the highest value of venture capital investment – almost ** billion U.S. dollars in funding. This was followed by the healthcare and mobile and telecommunications industries, although with significantly less funding in comparison to the internet industry. Overall, the value of venture capital funding invested in the United States in 2020 amounted to more than *** billion dollars – an increase compared to the previous year, despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2023, the state that had the highest value of venture capital (VC) investment in the United States was California. The value of VC investments made in California amounted to over ** billion U.S. dollars, followed by New York with nearly ***** billion U.S. dollars. Massachusetts secured the third position with around ** billion U.S. dollars worth of investment. In terms of deal volume, California also led the U.S. market as the state with the highest number of venture capital deals closed. How has venture capital investment in the U.S. changed over time? Over the course of the last five years, the value of venture capital investment in the United States has generally increased, albeit with some fluctuation. Despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that have impacted economies worldwide, VC investments amounted to a value of around *** billion U.S. dollars in 2020 – a significant increase from the value obtained in the previous year. Which industries received the most VC funding? In the United States, the value of venture capital investment was highest in the software industry in 2023, with deal value of over ** billion U.S. dollars. This was followed by the commercial products and service industry, and then the pharma and biotech sector.

The value of venture capital (VC) funding to startups globally fluctuated between 2011 and 2020 for both female-only founded startups and female/male cofounded startups. In 2020, startups founded by women only received around ************ U.S. dollars in VC funding, while startups with both male and female cofounders received around ********** U.S. dollars. In 2011, VC funding received amounted to ************* U.S. dollars for female/male cofounded companies and under *********** U.S. dollars for companies with only a female founder. Value of VC funding peaked in 2018, when both female-only founded companies and female/male cofounded companies received over ********** U.S. dollars in funding.

2021 set a new record for venture capital investments in the United States, amounting to approximately *** billion U.S. dollars, nearly twice as much as the previous year. Venture capital is defined as temporary equity investment in young, innovative, non-listed companies that stand out on the market. Although the companies lack the current earning power, they have above average growth potential, which makes them an attractive investment opportunity. In 2023, it was ***** billion U.S. dollars, which was a significant decline when compared to the previous year.

In 2024, the number of venture capital (VC) investment deals in construction tech increased significantly. The VC deal count reached its peak with *** deals that year, which was more than ***** times higher than in 2020. Meanwhile, the value of VC investment on construction tech barely increased in 2024.

During the third quarter of 2020, the digital banking and credit platform Konfío closed the largest venture capital deal in Mexico, amounting to 59 million U.S. dollars. The proptech startup Flat ranked second, with an investment value of 25 million dollars. As of February 2021, venture capital investments received by Konfío added up to around 461 million dollars.

In countries with the highest number of COVID-19 cases, the amount of venture capital funding decreased for some and increased for others. The United States had the highest number of COVID-19 cases worldwide as of the end of July 2020, with venture capital funding amounting to 62.3 billion U.S. dollars. This is 2.4 billion U.S. dollars less than the average value of VC funding recorded in the U.S. in the first halves of 2018 and 2019.

Conversely, India had the third-highest COVID-19 case count in the world, and recorded 19.4 billion U.S. dollars in venture funding between January and June 2020. This value was 13.9 billion U.S. dollars higher than the value of VC invested in the first halves of 2018 and 2019.

Venture capital investments amounted to **** billion U.S. dollars in the ******** industry in the United States in the first quarter 2021. Other leading VC sectors in terms of investment were **********, ******************************, and *****************************. What is venture capital? Public companies can access financial markets through stock exchanges, but private firms do not have that opportunity. They must instead seek private equity funding. Venture capital is a subset of private equity which focuses on relatively small firms perceived to have high growth potential. These investments can be quite risky, as many of the firms are not yet established and have a higher risk of failing. However, the industry relies on blockbusters that generate massive returns through explosive growth. North America leads in terms of VC deals, and Asia follows close behind. Firms that get private equity funding Startup funding can come from a variety of sources, from family and friends to professional “accelerators” or “incubators” that mentor fledgling companies. Many of these companies remain small, but a few have achieved high valuations. Called “unicorns” because they were so rare, startup companies valued over one billion U.S. dollars have become more common, and the highest valued ones are based in the U.S. and China.

There were around ***** million U.S. dollars worth of venture capital investments in Brazilian startups during the first semester of 2020. About ***** million U.S. dollars (or **** percent) of the total investment value was collected in São Paulo. Rio de Janeiro was home to the country's second largest amount of venture capital investments, receiving **** million U.S. dollars (or around *** percent) of the all the investments. In 2019, these two cities were among the leading financial centers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cybersecurity venture capital funding in the United States registered a significant increase over the period under consideration, peaking at nearly six billion U.S. dollars in 2020. By contrast, the number of venture capital deals in the U.S. slightly decreased in 2020 compared to 2019.

The proportion of venture capital (VC) funding that went to startups with female founders only or at least one female founder globally didn't change significantly from 2011 to 2020. In 2020, startups with only female founders received *** percent of global VC funding, while startups with both male and female cofounders received * percent of funding. In 2011, female-only founded companies and female/male cofounded companies received **** percent and ***** percent of global VC funding, respectively.

In 2024, EU cleantech VC investment decreased by 24 percent year-on-year to 8.8 billion euros. The highest number of VC and growth equity deals in the European Union-based cleantech ecosystem were in Germany and France.

In 2020, Indian companies attracted around *********** U.S. dollars in venture capital investments. This was a slight decrease compared to the record-breaking year 2019. As the number of deals increased, it is still the second highest value of VC-investments in the country.

As the value of VC investments is still on a high level despite the implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the investment trend seemed to continue. It was driven by large deals as well as by emerging sectors like Fintech and software as a service (SaaS).

In the first semester of 2020, investment funds accounted for nearly two thirds of the venture capital investments in Peru. In contrast, angel investors made up only around 12 percent of the startup funding. In that same period, the number of venture capital transactions completed in the South American country declined significantly in relation to previous year.

This statistic shows the healthcare information technology (HIT) venture capital (VC) funding worldwide from 2010 to 2020. A total of 8.55 billion U.S. dollars of VC funding took place in 2019, but funding increased to almost 15 billion U.S. dollars during pandemic year 2020.

In 2023, the funding value of early-stage venture capital deals reached 3.04 billion U.S. dollars. In comparison, late-stage deals reached a funding value of 3.06 billion U.S. dollars over the same year.

In the first five months of 2020, the logistics investments in the food supply chain amounted to roughly one billion U.S. dollars. Since 2016, the value of venture investments in the sector has increased and peaked in 2019, with 2.8 billion U.S. dollars. The reason behind the increase of deals lies in the higher complexity of business models in the food supply chain and retail channels.

In the first half of 2020, property technology (PropTech) startups in Brazil received ***** million U.S. dollars of venture capital (VC) investments. Supply chain companies received the second highest value of VC investments in the South American country, surpassing the 88-million dollars mark. In 2019, Brazil reported having *** out of the 350 PropTech companies in Latin America.

Global venture capital investment increased considerably during the pandemic, going from **** billion U.S. dollars in the third quarter of 2019 to a peak of nearly *** billion U.S. dollars in the fourth quarter of 2021. However, with the onset of the global recession in 2022 and 2023, VC investment decreased again, reaching approximately ** billion U.S. dollars in the fourth quarter of 2023.