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Corporate buyers playing a big role in exit markets

Exit markets are felt the pinch, but corporate acquisitions have continued to display remarkable strength.

2 min read · 18 March 2016

Dashboard: Fundraising soars in February

IPOs come back from the dead, thanks to four VC-backed biotech companies debuting

2 min read · 16 March 2016

Venture-backed stocks hold steady in February

The venture-backed stock index falls again, but only by 2.89 points and could be rebounding back up

2 min read · 01 March 2016

Bucking the trend, round sizes in venture deals climb

The good times may be over for late-stage companies, which have seen their valuations drop, but round sizes for VC deals aren’t not even close to shrinking

2 min read · 24 February 2016

Dashboard: VC-backed M&A heats up in December; IPOs remain cold

M&A proceeds spiked in December thanks to Bristol-Myers' $2.1 billion acquisition of Cardioxyl, the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company in 2015

2 min read · 13 January 2016

VC-backed M&A surpasses $20 bln in 2015

Last year's VC-backed M&A total was a little more than $20 billion, about equal the WhatsApp acquisition the year before

2 min read · 11 January 2016

Top 10 VC deals in Canada

Lightspeed and Kik head up the list of top venture fundings for Canadian companies in 2015

3 min read · 07 January 2016

Venture fundraising picks up in Q4, but 2015 falls short of another banner year

Venture firms nationwide raised more than $29 billion in 2015, nearly on par with the year before, according to preliminary data

3 min read · 04 January 2016

Year in Review: Sequoia ranks as most active VC investor

Sequoia Capital backed the most companies and invested the largest amount of capital in 2015, according to preliminary data

2 min read · 01 January 2016

Year in Review: China attracts almost a quarter of world’s venture capital

China has come a long way as a venture capital center. Just slightly less than a quarter of worldwide VC dollars have targeted companies in the nation over the past two years, a record level.

1 min read · 01 December 2015

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