New data - this time for emerging VCs!
Our first ever VC Fund Performance report is now live, with data up through Q1 2024.
Carta serves more than 3,000 venture firms across many categories, so we’ve narrowed this analysis in a few ways to make it more impactful. Only U.S. funds are included, and all included funds are direct venture investors (as opposed to fund of funds).
Funds must have been in vintage years 2017 through 2022. Each vintage year includes at least 120 underlying funds (and far more in most vintages). We believe this represents a dramatic expansion of the public data available for small VC fund performance.
Note that this report does include some data from funds over $100 million as well, a traditional delineation point between emerging and established managers.
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀
𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Funds in the 2022 vintage have deployed about 43% of their committed capital at the 24 month mark, the lowest share of any analyzed vintage. Prior vintages ranged from 47%-60% after 24 months.
𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 30.6% of companies that raised a seed round in Q1 2018 made it to Series A within two years. Only 15.4% of Q1 2022 seed startups did so in the same timeframe.
𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗣𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲: Less than 10% of 2021 funds have had any DPI after 3 years.
This is obviously the first release of what we hope to be a quarterly deep-dive, so if you have ideas on how to improve it shout out in the comments!
Also if you are a Carta Fund Admin customer, you can certainly read the public report – but you'll be receiving an exclusive, expanded analysis in your inbox this morning. We appreciate you 🙏
Link to full report: https://lnkd.in/g7Fy33Ya
Data to the startup people!
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