Publisher: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
Date: October 18, 2013
Venture capitalists invested $7.8 billion in 1,005 deals in the third quarter of 2013, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterly venture capital (VC) investment activity rose 12 percent in terms of dollars and 5 percent in the number of deals compared to the second quarter of 2013 when $7.0 billion was invested in 956 deals. When compared to the first three quarters of 2012, both the dollar and deal totals for the first three quarters of 2013 track slightly higher, however the dollar and deal totals for the first three quarters of 2011 exceed those of 2013.
The Software industry received the highest level of funding in the third quarter of 2013, exceeding the $3 billion mark for the first time in 12 years with $3.6 billion flowing into the sector during the quarter. The Software industry also counted the most deals in Q3 at 420, a 23 percent increase from the 342 rounds completed in the second quarter of 2013. Nine of the 11 largest investments in Q3 went into Software companies.
“It’s an exciting time to be an entrepreneur with a software company,” remarked Mark McCaffrey, global technology partner and software leader at PwC US. “More venture capital dollars are going into more software deals than we’ve seen in the past decade. The continued increase in valuations for innovative and disruptive technologies in software-related companies, coupled with the increase in exit activity, is driving venture capitalists to make more investments in this space. And, at the current pace of investing, we should see total venture capital investments in 2013 exceed the annual total from 2012.” Read more here.
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