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Venture capital deals nosedive in Q2 both in number and value of deals
Friday, July 05, 2019

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

By the end of Q3 2018, the venture capital industry had already broken full-year totals to record the most active deal-making period of all time. Since then, though, both the number and value of deals have subsided.

In Q2 2019, 3,263 deals were announced globally, worth a total of $52bn. This total is significantly lower than the 4,356 deals announced in Q2 2018 worth $77bn - a record high, Preqin said in its Quarterly Update.

A slowdown in investment in Greater China is primarily responsible for this decline. Q2 2019 saw just 684 deals announced in the region, down from 1,366 in Q2 2018, s......................

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