{"id":94794,"date":"2020-05-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/covid-19-impacts-global-vc-funding-with-high-value-deals-remaining-mostly-non-existent-says-globaldata\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:59:53","slug":"covid-19-impacts-global-vc-funding-with-high-value-deals-remaining-mostly-non-existent-says-globaldata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/covid-19-impacts-global-vc-funding-with-high-value-deals-remaining-mostly-non-existent-says-globaldata\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 impacts global VC funding with high-value deals remaining mostly non-existent, says GlobalData"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of GlobalData\u2019s Financial Deals Database reveals that globally VC investment volume (with disclosed funding value) decreased from 1,327 in January to 1,235 in February, and 1,167 in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The share of low-value deals as a percentage of the total deal volume was more than 70% in Q1 2020. In contrast, the share of deals valued more than US$100m stood at just 2.4% while those worth equal to or greater than $1bn were mostly non-existent.<\/p>\n<p>Aurojyoti Bose, Lead Analyst at GlobalData, comments: <em>\u201cThe subdued activity could be attributed to uncertainty prevailing due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which has also made VC investors cautious when committing to big-ticket investments. Moreover, with deal activity remaining sluggish in April 2020, the impact of COVID-19 is likely to be carried over into Q2.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.next-finance.net\/http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter size-full wp-image-94792\" src=\"IMG\/png\/-237.png\" alt=\"-237.png\" align=\"center\" width=\"602\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,327 deals (with disclosed deal value) were announced in January 2020 and low-value deals as a percentage of the total deal volume stood at 73.2% during the month. The share of deals valued more than US$100m stood at 2.3% while no billion-dollar deals were announced.<\/p>\n<p>Deal volume declined by 6.9% during February 2020 compared to the previous month. Share of low-value deals as a percentage of the total deal volume stood at 74.3%. The share of deals valued more than US$100m stood at 1.9% while the month also did not witness announcement of any billion-dollar deal.<\/p>\n<p>Deal volume declined by 5.5% during March 2020 compared to the previous month. Share of low value deals as a percentage of the total deal volume stood at 74.6%. The month witnessed the highest number of deals valued more than US$100m among all the three months with the corresponding share standing at 2.9%. March was also the only month to witness billion-dollar deal.<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-94794 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-herald-lay-c1'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237.png'><img width=\"470\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237-470x313.png\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-c1 size-herald-lay-c1\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237-470x313.png 470w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237-414x276.png 414w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237-130x86.png 130w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/237-187x124.png 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global venture capital (VC) investment activity showcased a declining trend (for deals with disclosed funding value) during the COVID-19 hit first quarter (Q1) of 2020 with high-value deals remaining mostly non-existent and low-value deals equal to or less than US$10m continuing to account for the majority of the VC investment volume during the quarter, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":94792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1671,1651,1437,2082,2035,1702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94795,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94794\/revisions\/94795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}