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The Americas attracts over half of global VC funding in Q4 2020

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

The Americas accounted for more than half of VC investment globally during Q4'20, with $41 billion of investment across 2,725 deals, according to KPMG. It was $44.7 billion in Q3'20.

Of this amount, the US accounted for $38.8 billion across 2,526 deals, said Q4'20 edition of the KPMG Private Enterprise Venture Pulse report.

The region's largest deals include a $725 million raise by biotech company Resilience, a $668 million raise by fintech Robinhood, a $533.8 million raise by fintech Chime, and $500 million raises by aerospace company Relativity Space and self-driving delivery company Nuro.

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