Analysis

May 3, 2021

The data: European vs US VCs

Longer fundraising cycles, fewer emerging managers and more CVCs: the European venture scene doesn’t look like that in the US.


Venture capital funding in Europe grew 6x over the last decade, to nearly $24bn in 2020 ($34.3bn in 2019). This is still short of the record $73.6bn the US ecosystem raised in 2020, but a big jump and 1.5 times the rate of growth than the US over the same period.

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