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Venture capital deals up 28% to $182bn in 2017

Research provider Preqin indicated that the aggregate value of venture capital (VC) investments worldwide reached a record-high of $182.4bn in 2017, constituting an increase of 27.6% from $143bn in 2016. It noted that VC deals in North America totaled $77bn and represented 42.2% of global VC investments, followed by China with $64.8bn (35.5%), Europe with $17.7bn (9.7%) and India $10.4bn (5.7%). It pointed out that the value of VC investments in the Internet industry reached $43.6bn in 2017, or 24% of the total, followed by the telecommunication sector with $41.8bn (23%), the software industry with $26.9bn (14.8%) and the healthcare sector with $25.9bn (14.2%). In parallel, it pointed out that 11,144 VC deals took place last year, which constitutes a decline of 6.7% from 11,944 transactions in 2016.
Source: Preqin
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