Swiss Venture Capital Report 2020
In 2019, almost CHF 2.3 billion was invested in 266 Swiss start-ups, representing an 85.5% increase compared with the previous year.
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In 2019, almost CHF 2.3 billion was invested in 266 Swiss start-ups, representing an 85.5% increase compared with the previous year.
The Swedish venture capital market represents 35% of total Nordic exit value and over SEK 35 billion in assets under management.
The Swiss venture capital market recorded an overall growth rate of 86%.
Greater China accounts for 61% of Asia-Pacific-focused PEVC assets under management, tracked across over 4,600 fund managers and 740 investors.
In Fiscal Year 2019, participating federal agencies obligated $3.29 billion of SBIR funding and $429.3 million of STTR funding across 11 participating agencies.
In 2018, nearly CHF 1.24 billion in venture capital was invested in Swiss start-ups, representing an increase of 31.8% on the previous year.
Swiss startups raised CHF 1236 million in funding in 2018.
From 2007 to 2015, investors poured around €35 billion into early and later-stage start-ups located in the 28 EU countries.
Venture capital (VC) funds invest in only around 0.2% of new U.S. businesses, yet 43% of U.S. public listed companies founded between 1979 and 2013 were VC-backed.
Stockholm attracted 18% of all European Fintech investments in 2014 and 16% over an 11-year period.
Total venture capital investment in Swiss start-ups reached CHF 937.7 million in 2017 across 175 financing rounds.
In 2017, Swiss startups received total venture capital funding of CHF 938 million.
In 2016, 151 financing rounds of Swiss start-ups were reported, representing an increase of 26% compared with 2015.
Between 2007 and 2015, VC firms in the EU raised EUR 40 billion, with government agencies contributing more than a fifth of the total funds committed.
The Navy SBIR/STTR Phase II program provided nearly $2.3 billion in funding across 2,734 contracts to 1,199 small businesses between FY 2000 and 2013.
Accel evaluated 1,000 SaaS companies as part of its next generation software research.
Venture capital investment in Swiss start-ups reached a peak of CHF 676 million across 120 financing rounds in 2015.
In 2014, total invested equity in Swedish companies reached 8 100 billion SEK, with foreign owners accounting for 50 percent of the total.
In 2014, Swiss start-ups collected CHF 457 million in 92 financing rounds, representing an increase of about 10 % on the previous year.
Total cumulative direct sales generated from the Air Force SBIR/STTR Phase II contracts reached $14,691,776,039 across 2,631 commercialized contracts.
Swiss start-ups received a total of CHF415.3 million across 90 venture capital financing rounds in 2013.
Around 70,000 companies are founded each year in Sweden, but only a fraction are suitable for private equity and business angel investments.
The study analyzes whether growth rates of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) backed startups differ from Venture Capital (VC) backed startups.
London has an AI supplier base of 758 companies, 645 of which are headquartered in the capital.