Globalscape 2025: Race for Compute
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimates that $2T worth of data centers will power software globally over the next four to five years [p.4].
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimates that $2T worth of data centers will power software globally over the next four to five years [p.4].
Preliminary fundraising figures for Europe in H1 2025 reached €54bn, representing a 19% decline from H1 2024.
Global fintech investment reached $44.7 billion across 2,216 deals in H1’25, down from $54.2 billion across 2,376 deals in H2’24.
The total number of financing rounds decreased by 10.1% to 124 rounds.
FiBAN members invested €31.5 million in startups in 2024, representing a 19% increase compared to the previous year.
Total fundraising in Europe reached its second-highest year ever at €147bn during 2025, representing a 16% increase from the previous year.
Israeli cybersecurity total funding reached $5.1 billion across 136 rounds in 2025.
In Q2 2025, VC firms deployed $69.9 billion across an estimated 4,001 deals, marking a 24.8% QoQ decline in total deal value.
Aggregate venture debt deal value in 2024 surged past $53 billion despite transaction volume falling below 1,400 completed deals.
Spanish private capital funds generated an aggregate net IRR of 11.1% and a TVPI multiple of 1.6x over the 2006–2024 period.
Total capital deployed in the Baltic startup ecosystem reached €1606 million in 2025, up from €546 million in 2024.
Swiss venture capital invested capital recorded a 23.9% increase after two consecutive years of decline.
Swiss fund managers oversaw around CHF 360 billion in private market investments by the end of 2024.
Fee-Paying Assets Under Management (FPAUM) reached €148bn at year-end 2025, driven by €23bn in gross inflows across strategies.
A total of 409 FiBAN members participated in the annual investment survey for 2025.
The survey received 76 answers from 488 targeted employees of Finnish private equity and venture capital companies.
Over 90 % of surveyed professionals anticipate an increase in PE-involved M&A transactions in 2025, with 91 % expecting a year-on-year rise.
Venture Capital & Private Equity investment in Spain reached €6.292M across 785 investments in 2024.
The US venture capital market deployed $215.4 billion across 14,320 deals in 2024.
Between 2010 and 2025, US, Japanese, and UAE investors participated in over 19k deals, representing approximately €380b raised in equity by European companies (excluding exits).
Capital raised by European PE and VC funds reached €54 billion in the first half of 2025, representing a 20% decline compared to the same period in 2024.
Total venture capital investment reached $1.26B across 116 deals in Q1 2025.
Preliminary European private equity fundraising reached €58.5bn in H1 2024, a 16% increase compared to H1 2023 figures.
Artificial intelligence creates a $4T+ market opportunity as it disrupts software, services, and labor markets.
The EIF VC Survey 2024 gathered anonymised responses from 398 VC fund managers operating in Europe.
As of 29 December 2023, global assets under management by listed private equity firms and funds totalled €3,369 billion.
The exit environment was identified by 21% of respondents as the single most critical challenge facing their venture capital business in 2024.
The Nasdaq Composite Index grew 38% over the last twelve months, adding $8.4 trillion in market capitalisation.
US venture deal activity reached 3,775 completed deals in Q3, putting total full-year deal value on track for $175.2 billion.
Total global fintech investment across VC, PE, and M&A fell from $62.3 billion across 2,287 deals in H2’23 to $51.8 billion across 2,254 deals in H1’24.