A brief look at the funding environment for startups in the United States with a particular focus on New York. The report is broken down by stage of funding including angel funding and venture capital backed rounds.

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THE JANUARY 2014
ANNUAL US AND NYC
VENTURE CAPITAL &
ANGEL INVESTMENT
REPORT

2. we’ve analyzed some publicly available data from Crunchbase and with
the use of some Excel maneuvering, we present the following statistics
regarding the the state of venture capital and angel funding in New
York City and nationally for JANUARY 2014.
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All data is broken down by stage of funding:
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Angel
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Series A
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Series B
Series C+
THE STATE OF VENTURE CAPITAL AND ANGEL
FUNDING FOR JANUARY 2014

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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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us
66
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-5%
$546,668
+17%
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# of angel deals:
nyc
9
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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average deal size: $460,000
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aggregate amount: $4.14 million
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$36.1 million
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
There
was
a
big
up.ck
in
the
average
angel
round
na.onwide
from
2013
averages,
however
in
New
York
things
remained
rela.vely
steady.
We’ll
monitor
this
as
the
year
progresses.
NYC
accounted
for
14%
of
total
deals
which
is
on
par
with
2013
historical
averages.
ANGEL FUNDING JANUARY 2014

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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
nyc
# of series a deals: 13
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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average deal size: $9.41 million 76%
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aggregate amount: $122.3 million
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us
88
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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$6.44 million
+11%
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$567.43 Million
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
The
average
series
A
round
in
NYC
was
up
a
76%
in
January
from
2013
averages.
While
the
Oscar
Health
round
($30M)
did
impact
this,
there
were
other
Series
A
fundings
at
the
$10M+
level
including
Mashable,
Oyster,
Zachary
Prell,
and
One
Hour
Transla.on.
NYC’s
contribu.on
to
the
number
of
deals
remained
in
line
with
historical
averages.
SERIES A FUNDING JANUARY 2014

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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
nyc
# of series b deals: 3
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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average deal size: $6.3 million
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aggregate amount: $18.9 million
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-39%
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us
53
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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$12.58 million
+4%
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$666.65 million
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
While
certainly
there
is
not
a
cri.cal
mass
as
there
were
only
3
Series
B
deals
in
January
in
NYC,
the
average
funding
was
down
39%.
In
fact,
the
average
Series
A
round
in
NYC
was
larger
in
January
than
the
average
B
Round.
SERIES B FUNDING JANUARY 2014

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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
nyc
# of series c+ deals: 5
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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average deal size: $26.4 million 10%
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aggregate amount: $1.55 billion
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us
49
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
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$31.73 Million
$132 million
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+28%
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
NYC-­‐based
Series
C+
ac.vity
remained
rela.vely
consistent
with
historical
averages.
SERIES C+ FUNDING JANUARY 2014

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# of ALL FUNDING
deals:
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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
nyc
30
us
256
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aggregate amount: 277.34 million
$2.8 billion
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
At
this
early
stage
in
the
year,
NYC
contribu.on
margin
for
total
funding
is
in
line
with
historical
averages.
Aggregate
funding
is
up
15%
for
January
of
2014
as
compared
to
the
same
period
in
2013.
TOTAL STARTUP FUNDING ACROSS ALL ROUNDS JANUARY 2014

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