Consulting company KPMG and CB Insights conducted a global survey of the venture capital market. In the first three quarters of 2015, venture capital investments in the world exceeded the volume of investments for the entire 2014 and amounted to $ 98.4 billion. In the third quarter of 2015, the global venture capital market grew by 82.5% (to $ 37.6 billion) compared to the same period in 2014. However, the number of venture transactions, in contrast, decreased by 9% - from 1977 to 1799.
Source: KPMG and CB Insights
According to the report, more than half of global transactions accounted for the United States.
For the first three quarters of 2015, the US venture capital market amounted to $ 57.9 billion, which exceeds the results of 2014 - $ 56.5 billion.
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In the third quarter, KPMG analysts counted 37 major investment rounds, each of which exceeds $ 100 million. The largest investment in Q3 2015 attracted the
Uber taxi taxi service, which received $ 2 billion, and its Chinese competitor, Didi Kuaidi, with an investment of $ 3 billion.
In addition to Uber in America, over the past three months,
Social Finance ($ 1 billion) student loan area,
Palantir big data analysis service ($ 450 million) and
Avant online lending service ($ 325 million) received large investments.
A year ago, according to the results of the third quarter of 2014, European startups received $ 2.2 billion of investments, and Asian more than two times more - $ 4.8 billion. In the third quarter of 2015, venture investors invested almost 4 times more money in Asian companies than in European companies - $ 13.5 billion against $ 3.6 billion.
In addition to Didi Kuaidi in Asia, the largest deals were attracting Chinese online food ordering service
Ele.me to $ 630 million and investing in the Indian marketplace
One97 ($ 680 million). In Europe, biotech startup
Immunocore (cancer diagnostics) received an investment of $ 320 million, and $ 200 million was attracted by the
BlaBlaCar search service for travel
companions .
The British market accounts for about 29% of the European market, and venture capital activity there is high compared to other countries. However, it has been falling for the second quarter in a row and is at its lowest level in the last five quarters.
But analysts say the rapid growth of the venture capital market in China. Over the year, the total amount of transactions increased by almost 400% - from $ 2.3 billion to $ 9.6 billion.
In the third quarter of 2015, about half (49%) of the total number of transactions accounted for the Internet segment, telecommunications and mobile applications accounted for 18%, health startups account for 12% of the market, 6% of investments were spent on software, not related to the Internet and mobile segment, and 3% occupied by consumer services and services,
transfer "Vedomosti"