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Total VC Funding and Deal Count

Total VC Funding and Deal Count
Chart by Sapphire Ventures. Source: sapphireventures.com

Global VC funding grew 30% YoY in 2025 to $505B, reaching the third-highest total on record, while deal count dropped to a 10-year low of 27K deals.

LabelValue shown on the chart
2021 Total VC Funding$755B
2022 Total VC Funding$531B
2023 Total VC Funding$363B
2024 Total VC Funding$389B
2025 Total VC Funding$505B
2021 Deal Count50K
2022 Deal Count48K
2023 Deal Count39K
2024 Deal Count34K
2025 Deal Count27K

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