In this short piece, we provide a comparison of our GCV Analytics data with Pitchbook’s data up until the end of the third quarter of 2018.
According to Pitchbook’s data, the global VC deals reached a peak in 2015 – when 19,890 such transactions were tracked – and has been in decline since, going down to 17,607 in 2016 and 16,615 in 2017. By the end of the third quarter this year, the deal count stood at 11,122, which implies that by the end of December it may register a total count figure even lower than last year’s.
