2013 startup funding statistics

Biggest growth in seed and late stage investment

Pitchbook analysed 11,000 VC rounds and generated some very interesting trends (content borrowed from Venture Beat)

Interesting trends are the strong growth in seed stage valuation, and the big surge in late stage valuation. The latter largely due to the favourable IPO climate leading to several recent big public offerings.

The growth in seed stage valuation is a problem as it is aggravating the “Series A crunch”:

High seed-stage valuations are making it difficult for startups to raise Series A rounds, because seed investors want to see an appreciation of their investment, while A round investors view the seed round valuations as “unduly inflated.”