Two days ago, I wrote about a number of trends underlying venture capital deals the last few years. The short version: Today, I thought I'd go ahead and plot those deals. The charts below show the number of deals at the high end of three funding rounds (Seed, Series A, and Series B) between 2007 and 2017. It shows just how much bigger some of the largest deals within these round sequences has gotten.
What's driving the increase in average venture capital deal sizes?
Earlier today, I saw a post that showed average venture capital deal sizes increasing across the round sequences. I wanted to find out what is driving these trends, so I dug deeper into the data. It shows that digging into the underlying data on deal size distributions contains rich insights.