The VC Factor: Gender Lens Edition
Combining 2021 and 2022 accounted for one third of all VC volumes invested since 2007.
Combining 2021 and 2022 accounted for one third of all VC volumes invested since 2007.
Invest Europe's preliminary data shows European private equity funds raised €33 billion in the first half of 2023, representing a 63% decline compared to the prior six months.
Total impact investment assets under management (AUM) in Spain reached €2,398.6 million at year-end 2021.
Private capital in Spain invested an all-time record total volume of €9,238 million across 960 operations in 2022.
Tech Titans increased their market cap by 36% over the past year, adding $2.4T in value.
SECA represents the Swiss private equity, venture capital, and corporate finance industries with a member base of more than 500 members.
SECA represents more than 500 members including investment companies, banks, corporate finance advisors, auditing firms, lawyers, and private investors in Switzerland.
ICT/Fintech surpassed CHF 2 billion, with ICT invested capital growing by 72%.
In 2021, there were more than 300 million users of digital payments and more than 30 million users of digital banks across Latin America.
In Ghana, the growth of mobile money increased access to financial services for unbanked demographics, with 35 percent of adults in rural areas reporting having used the service between 2014 and 2017.
Overall M&A volume in the education sector declined by about 15% to 20% in 2022 compared with 2021.
Over 700 M&A transactions have been consummated in U.S. HCIT since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.
Total global fintech investment dropped to $113.7 billion across 4,547 deals in 2023.
Global greenhouse gas emissions reached a record 53.8 Gt CO2e in 2022, with physical industries accounting for over 75% of emissions.
European tech ecosystem value bounced back to $3 trillion, recovering the $400 billion that was wiped out in 2022.
Private equity and venture capital backed companies employed 236,960 people in Belgium in 2021, representing 5% of the country's total 4.8 million workforce.
84% of surveyed private equity and venture capital entities operating in Spain consider ESG issues in their management and investment decisions.
Private capital entities managed €43.629 million across 3.012 Spanish portfolio companies in 2021.
Mean FTE employment growth among SVCA member portfolio companies reached 21% in 2022, up from 9% in FY 2020.
Tether and USD Coin attempt to maintain a stable value by being purportedly backed one-for-one in value to underlying assets.
Preliminary H1 2022 fundraising figures for Europe reached €64.5bn, close to the H1 2021 record figure of €66.0bn.
Fifteen percent of advisors reported allocating to crypto in client accounts in the 2023 survey, compared to 16% in the previous year.
In the 2022 survey, 34 per cent of respondents stated they paid with cash in the past month, down from 50 per cent in spring 2020.
Total private equity investments permanently increase Swedish GDP by 3.5%-4.7%.
The 2022 wave of the survey gathered anonymised responses from 443 venture capital fund managers across 362 VC firms.
In March 2023, the European Commission committed to reducing reporting requirements by 25% to reduce red tape and strengthen European competitiveness.
A lack of qualified employees is the primary barrier to achieving business objectives for 41% of Canadian SMEs.
The global economy faces a polycrisis arising from interconnected ecological, economic, and social-political strains after ending a 40-year period of macroeconomic moderation.
In the first half of 2022, total invested capital in Swiss start-up financing rose to almost CHF 2.6 billion across more than 160 financing rounds.
By August 2021, total crypto asset volume had grown by 230 percent year over year in Asian emerging market economies.