ANALYSIS: Billion-Dollar VC Fundings Made for Record Q1

April 7, 2021, 11:01 AM UTC

Global venture capital investment volume hit a record high last quarter, boosted by a group of 29 large deals. While accounting for less than 1% of the quarter’s total deal count, these large deals represented more than 22% of the quarter’s total deal volume. Amounting to $29 billion in total, these 29 individual VC fundings ranged in value from $500 million to $3.4 billion. In contrast, the vast majority of the nearly 3,000 funding rounds announced in Q1 for which financial data was disclosed were valued under $500 million each.

Among the largest VC investments from last quarter were the ...

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