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A record-shattering $14 billion raise by Ant Financial in China, in addition to $1 billion+ mega-rounds to Weltmeister, Pinduoduo, Faraday Future, and Manbang Group helped propel VC investment in Asia and the Americas. While VC investment in Europe remained far behind the other regions, a rebound in investment in the UK helped to keep European investment relatively strong quarter-over-quarter.
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services and is a Swiss entity with which the independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated.
Venture
Pulse
Q2 2018
Global analysis of
venture funding
12 July 2018
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2018 KPMG International Cooperative ("KPMG International"). KPMG International provides no client
services and is a Swiss entity with which the independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated.
Welcome
Welcome to the Q2'18 edition of KPMG Enterprise's Venture Pulse
a quarterly report highlighting key trends, opportunities and challenges
facing the venture capital market globally and in key regions around
the world.
A record-shattering $14 billion raise by Ant Financial in China, in addition
to $1 billion+ mega-rounds to Weltmeister, Pinduoduo, Faraday Future,
and Manbang Group helped propel VC investment in Asia and the
Americas. While VC investment in Europe remained far behind the other
regions, a rebound in investment in the UK helped to keep European
investment relatively strong quarter-over-quarter.
Artificial intelligence continued to be a hot area of investment in all
regions of the world in Q2'18, while autotech, cybersecurity, agtech
and biotech were also seen as key priorities.
The IPO market gained momentum in Q2'18 with the successful IPOs
of Ayden in the Netherlands, DocuSign in the US and a number of
other software-as-a-service companies. M&A activity was also robust,
led by the $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft. With post-IPO
results showing positive returns, it is likely that other VC-backed
companies in the US, Europe and Asia could move forward with IPOs
over the next few quarters if only as a means to create exit
opportunities for their early investors.
Looking forward to Q3'18, AI and data analytics are expected to
remain high on the radar of VC investors. It is also expected that
companies in maturing sectors, such as e-commerce, will continue to
broaden