The 2014 U.S. Venture Capital Year in Review: Financing & Exit Analysis

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FINANCING AND EXIT ANALYSIS

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Even versus 2013, the past year was huge as venture capital skyrocketed 62% YoY due to multiple $500M+ mega-rounds. Deal growth was more modest climbing 8%.

Although there were 738 VC-backed exits in 2014, the IPO picture was a bit mixed. The healthcare IPO market continued its momentum from 2013 with 64 US-companies going public in 2014, up 68% YoY. Venture-backed tech IPO activity stalled a bit after Alibaba’s IPO in September but did finish up versus 2013 and closed out with a strong Dec. Healthcare and tech M&A were up 27% and 34% YoY, respectively.

2014 saw the highest number of seed VC deals since 2009 at 976. Seed VC dollars deployed hit a five-year high in 2014 at $1.33B. Seed funding has increased for four straight quarters.

Seed VC deal sizes continued their steady increase with a sharp uptick in Q4’14. In Q4’14, they bumped up to their highest levels in four years with the average hitting $1.9M and the median at $1.7M up 25% and 30% versus the same quarter a year prior.

As it targets a new $2.5B fund, New Enterprise Associates topped all venture investors by unique company deals in 2014, followed by fellow mega-funds Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, which ranked 5th in 2013.

In Q4’14, VC funding to the mobile sector topped $3B for the first time ever due to mega-financings to Uber, Snapchat, Instacart, and Square. Overall VC funding to the mobile sector was up 109% versus 2013 driven by these mega-deals. Deal volume was up only 10%.

NY saw every quarter eclipse $1B in VC financing for the first time ever. NY VC funding was up 54% YoY and saw 7% growth in deals versus 2013. However, on the IPO front, NY is a distant 3rd to Massachusetts.

Healthcare VC funding totaled $8.2B in 2014, up 28% YoY. Moderna and Intarcia raised a total of $650M making them the year’s largest healthcare deals.

We tracked a number of mega-deals this quarter whose investors included hedge funds or mutual funds for example. This report only includes only U.S.-based rounds in which VCs participated so that we can accurately reflect (and not inflate) VC investments. Page 100 details the rules and definitions we use.

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2014 hit the highest funding mark since 2001. A mix of traditional VC money coupled with corporate VCs, hedge funds, private equity investors and even sovereign wealth funds created a potent cocktail in 2014 lifting funding levels to the highs seen during the dot com boom.

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2014 saw venture capital deals rise a modest 8% versus 2013, but funding skyrocketed 62% due to multiple $500M+ rounds to a six-year high.

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On a monthly basis, venture capital deals in 2014 topped those in 2013 in all but 2 months. April ’14 was the highest month for U.S. venture deals over the past year with 345 deals.

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2014 ended with a bang on the funding front as VC-backed deals hit $7.1B in the final month of the year. The massive funding figure was largely driven by mega tech deals to companies including Uber and Snapchat.

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As it targets a new $2.5B fund, New Enterprise Associates topped all venture investors by unique company deals in 2014, followed by fellow mega-funds Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, which ranked 5th in 2013.

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Rank Investor 2013 Rank Rank Investor 2013 Rank

1 New Enterprise Associates 4 11 Atlas Venture -

2 Andreessen Horowitz 1 12 Accel Partners 18

3 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 5 13 Intel Capital 14

4 Google Ventures 3 13 Foundry Group -

5 Khosla Ventures 6 15 Lerer Hippeau Ventures 8

6 SV Angel 8 16 Bessemer Venture Partners 10

6 500 Startups 2 17 True Ventures 18

8 Sequoia Capital 10 18 Lightspeed Venture Partners 15

9 First Round Capital - 19 Greylock Partners 16

10 General Catalyst Partners 12 20 Redpoint Ventures -

Most Active Venture Capital Investors in 2014 Ranked by Unique Company Count

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1 - 25 26 - 50 51 - 75 76 - 102

New Enterprise Associates Greycroft Partners Insight Venture Partners Mohr Davidow Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz Norwest Venture Partners Founders Fund Lowercase Capital

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Canaan Partners Benchmark Capital Novartis Venture Funds

Google Ventures Sigma Partners VegasTech Fund Floodgate

Khosla Ventures InterWest Partners Polaris Partners Domain Associates

SV Angel SoftTech VC Institutional Venture Partners Correlation Ventures

500 Startups Venrock Felicis Ventures Connecticut Innovations

Sequoia Capital Menlo Ventures CRV Austin Ventures

First Round Capital Data Collective Comcast Ventures Salesforce Ventures

General Catalyst Partners Spark Capital Mayfield Fund Union Square Ventures

Atlas Venture Crosslink Capital Madrona Venture Group IDG Ventures

Accel Partners Softbank Capital Matrix Partners Ignition Partners

Intel Capital US Venture Partners Highland Capital Partners Avalon Ventures

Foundry Group Qualcomm Ventures Versant Ventures Sapphire Ventures

Lerer Hippeau Ventures Draper Fisher Jurvetson North Bridge Venture Partners Tenaya Capital

Bessemer Venture Partners Great Oaks Venture Capital Kapor Capital Lux Capital

True Ventures FirstMark Capital Samsung Ventures ENIAC Ventures

Lightspeed Venture Partners Foundation Capital Thrive Capital Adams Street Partners

Greylock Partners Bain Capital Ventures Sherpa Ventures DAG Ventures

Redpoint Ventures Trinity Ventures Metamorphic Ventures Sutter Hill Ventures

Index Ventures OrbiMed Advisors ff Venture Capital Scale Venture Partners

RRE Ventures August Capital Grotech Ventures Voyager Capital

Battery Ventures CrunchFund Founder Collective LaunchCapital

BoxGroup The Social+Capital Partnership Upfront Ventures Morgenthaler Ventures

Shasta Ventures Formation 8 Rothenberg Ventures Doll Capital Management

Hyde Park Venture Partners

GGV Capital

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California, New York, Massachusetts, Texas and Washington were the top five states for funding and deals for the second straight year. New York saw 22% more deals than Mass. and also beat The Bay State with over $300M more in funding.

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Rank State Deals Dollars ($M) Rank State Deals Dollars ($M) Rank State Deals Dollars ($M)

1 California 1631 26840.6 19 New Jersey 31 322.6 36 Louisiana 5 6.8

2 New York 422 4510.9 19 DC 31 247.4 38 Kentucky 4 60.4

3 Massachusetts 346 4163.8 21 Minnesota 29 329.8 38 Delaware 4 14.9

4 Texas 143 1203.1 21 Arizona 29 254.4 40 Arkansas 2 13.4

5 Washington 97 1144.6 21 Wisconsin 29 144.8 40 Maine 2 0.3

6 Illinois 89 1051.9 24 Oregon 25 160.2 42 Montana 1 26.0

7 Colorado 77 690.0 25 Missouri 20 179.8 42 Wyoming 1 4.6

8 Pennsylvania 73 711.9 26 Indiana 15 48.5 42 South Dakota 1 3.0

9 Maryland 54 350.0 27 New Hampshire 10 116.0 42 Oklahoma 1 2.4

10 Virginia 49 276.6 28 Nevada 9 65.5 42 Mississippi 1 1.5

11 Georgia 48 892.7 28 Nebraska 9 37.8 42 West Virginia 1 0.9

12 Utah 46 867.0 30 South Carolina 8 93.2 42 Idaho 1 0.9

12 North Carolina 46 355.2 31 Rhode Island 7 108.6 42 Alabama 1 0.5

14 Connecticut 38 377.3 31 Kansas 7 42.3

14 Michigan 38 296.0 31 Vermont 7 14.5

14 Ohio 38 257.9 31 Hawaii 7 11.7

17 Florida 36 867.6 31 New Mexico 7 10.3

17 Tennessee 36 110.7 36 Iowa 5 12.2

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On a year-over-year basis, California, Massachusetts, and New York saw deals increase by 13%, 9%, and 7% respectively. Among the big five, Washington actually saw a 17% decrease in deals versus 2013.

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While venture capital investment rose across all major states, none saw a bigger increase than California which jumped 81% YoY. Funding totals were boosted by the 30+ $100M financings.

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Venture capital deal share to early-stage startups (Seed/Series A) remained at a combined 55% in 2014, while all other stages were relatively range-bound as compared to 2013 totals.

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Series B funding share saw the largest jump in 2014 to 23% from 19% in 2013, while Series C and D funding share fell to 19% and 16%. With increased competition for deals and rising early-stage deal sizes, 2014 early-stage funding (Seed/Series A) share increased to 22% versus 20% in 2013.

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Venture capital deal share remained largely unchanged in 2014 versus 2013. Tech sectors (Internet, mobile, software, electronics & hardware) accounted for 75% of all VC deals in 2014, slightly up from 73% in 2013.

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Behind two mega-rounds to Uber totaling over $2B, mobile startup funding share increased from 13% to 17% in 2014. Healthcare funding share fell from 22% in 2013 to 17% in 2014.

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2014 saw the highest number of seed VC deals since 2009 with 976 financings. 4 of the 5 most active quarters for seed deals since 2011 occurred in 2014. Overall, seed VC funding hit a five-year high in 2014 at $1.33B as funding has increased in four straight quarters.

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Seed VC deal sizes continued their steady increase with a sharp uptick in Q4’14. In Q4’14, they bumped up to their highest levels in four years with the average hitting $1.9M and the median at $1.7M up 25% and 30% versus the same quarter a year prior.

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2014 was an active one for U.S. venture capital-backed IPOs, topping the previous year’s tally for the third straight year. Venture-backed M&A was also up 45% versus 2013.

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Note: Venture-backed IPOs in this report covers public offerings of companies headquartered in the U.S.

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Nine of the ten largest states for venture-backed financing saw more overall VC-backed exits in 2014 than in 2013. California saw a 42% increase, while Massachusetts and New York increased 105% and 28% respectively. The only state to see fewer VC-backed exits versus 2013 was New Jersey.

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Overall venture-backed tech exits (both M&A and IPOs) increased 42% in 2014 but was driven primarily by M&A activity. Venture-backed healthcare exits swelled 44% behind healthy IPO activity.

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The IPO market for healthcare companies caught fire in 2013 and continued in 2014 with 64 US-based VC-backed healthcare companies going public, up 68% YoY. Venture-backed tech IPOs slowed a bit after Alibaba’s IPO in September but still finished slightly up versus 2013 after a strong December finish.

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California and Mass took 62% of the U.S.-headquartered venture-backed IPOs in 2014. California saw a whopping 45% jump in venture-backed IPOs on a YoY basis. New York grew its # of IPOs significantly versus 2013 but remains a distant 3rd to Massachusetts.

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Venture-backed tech M&A exits in 2014 ticked up 43% as balance sheets and low interest rates contributed to spending sprees by some of tech’s biggest companies. The healthcare and energy sectors saw 27% and 122% growth respectively in venture-backed M&A activity.

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Venture-backed M&A saw increased totals in all major U.S. tech hubs including California, which increased 41% and Massachusetts, which saw M&A exit levels grow by 112%.

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Facebook’s acquisition of Sequoia Capital-backed WhatsApp for $22B was the largest venture-backed exit of 2014, followed by the IPOs of Lending Club and Zayo Group Holdings. Together, the 10 exits saw $48.55B in aggregate value.

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Company State Sector Valuation ($M) Exit Type Acquirer

WhatsApp California Mobile & Telecomm 22000 M&A Facebook

Lending Club California Financial 5416.67 IPO Public

Zayo Group Holdings Colorado Mobile & Telecomm 4447.9 IPO Public

Nest Labs California Energy & Utilities 3200 M&A Google

GoPro California Consumer Products & Services 3100 IPO Public

Arista Networks California Computer Hardware & Services 2734.04 IPO Public

GrubHub Seamless Illinois Internet 2038.03 IPO Public

Oculus VR California Software 2000 M&A Facebook

Juno Therapeutics Washington Healthcare 1870.53 IPO Public

Alios BioPharma California Healthcare 1750 M&A Johnson & Johnson

Top Venture Backed Exits of 2014

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VC funding in the Internet sector hit $5.6B in Q2’14, but cooled off a bit to $4.5B and $4.6B in Q3 and Q4. Still, Q4 funding was up 39% compared to the same period last year. Internet VC deal activity was up modestly versus 2013 climbing 7%.

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Year Funding ($B) Deals

2013 $11.8 1562

2014 $19.6 1675

YoY Growth 67% 7%

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San Francisco topped the list of U.S. cities for Internet venture capital deals and funding. The top two largest Internet deals of the year went to Cloudera’s $900M Series F and AirBnB’s $475M Series D.

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Top Cities Deals Dollars ($M) Company Round Amount ($M) Quarter

San Francisco 343 $5,198 Cloudera Series F $900 Q1'14

New York 237 $2,554 AirBnB Series D $475 Q2'14

Palo Alto 56 $1,852 SurveyMonkey Private Equity $250 Q4'14

Boston 56 $378 Vice Media Growth Equity $250 Q3'14

Mountain View 46 $710 AvantCredit Series D $225 Q4'14

San Mateo 39 $378 Pinterest Series F $200 Q2'14

Seattle 39 $398 Houzz Series D $165 Q3'14

Chicago 38 $526 Automattic Series C $160 Q2'14

Austin 37 $237 Qualtrics Series B $150 Q3'14

Cambridge 29 $169 Pluralsight Series B $135 Q3'14

Top Cities for Internet: 2014 Top Internet Deals: 2014

Note: Venture capital deals included in the ranking may be tranched fundings.

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While California took 46% of overall Internet VC deal share in 2014, New York came in a solid second at 16% and captured more than double the Internet VC deals of rival tech hub Massachusetts for the second straight year.

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California again took the majority of Internet VC funding (57%). NY took 15% of VC dollars (down from 19% share in 2013) behind nine-figure financings to Vice Media and Flatiron Health. Massachusetts came in third with a 5% internet funding share.

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Internet deal share at the Seed and Series A stage fell slightly in 2014. All other stages were relatively range-bound, with modest increases for Series C and Series E+ deal share versus 2013.

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With Internet companies staying private longer, 2014 saw Series E+ funding share continue to rise from 21% in 2013 to 26% in 2014.

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Business Intelligence (BI) and Advertising, Sales & Marketing grabbed the highest share of Internet deals in 2014, followed by CRM and Monitoring & Security. Deal distribution across Internet sub-industries remains quite diverse across both consumer and enterprise markets.

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BI saw double the VC funding versus any other internet area in 2014. Ad, Sales & Marketing, CRM, and Monitoring and security trailed with 5% funding share each.

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In Q4’14, VC funding to the mobile sector topped $3B for the first time ever due to mega-financings to Uber, Snapchat, Instacart, and Square. Overall VC funding to the mobile sector in 2014 was up 109% versus 2013, despite only a 10% increase in deals. The Uber impact was clear in the mobile numbers.

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2013 $3.7 521

2014 $7.8 571

YoY Growth 109% 10%

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San Francisco and New York top the list of U.S. cities for Mobile & Telecom venture capital deals. Uber’s Series D and E rounds which cumulatively raised $2.4B were the largest mobile VC deals of 2014, while Snapchat closed the third-largest mobile deal shortly before the new year.

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San Francisco 139 $4,141 Uber Series E $1,200 Q4'14

New York 73 $394 Uber Series D $1,200 Q2'14

Palo Alto 19 $95 Snapchat Series D $486 Q4'14

Boston 19 $123 TangoMe Series D $280 Q1'14

Mountain View 17 $450 Lyft Series D $250 Q2'14

Austin 10 $53 Instacart Series C $210 Q4'14

Redwood City 9 $76 Square Series E $150 Q4'14

Seattle 9 $43 Lookout Series F $150 Q3'14

Menlo Park 9 $26 NextNav Series D $70 Q3'14

San Diego 9 $46 Yik Yak Series B $62 Q4'14

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The trifecta of California, New York and Massachusetts increased their mobile deal share to 76% in 2014, up from 71% in 2013.

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California once again sits atop mobile venture capital by investment dollars. New York and Massachusetts were the only two states with funding share greater than 1%.

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Early stage investments at the Seed and Series A stage made up 70% of VC deals in the mobile sector as investors increasingly bet on the promise of mobile.

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Late-stage mega-deals saw 58% of funding going to Series D+ stages.

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VCs chased deals in a wide range of mobile sub-industries in 2014, but none more than Health & Wellness, which took 8% of all deals in the mobile sector. Social, CRM, and Conferencing & Communication followed.

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With the rise of Uber and Lyft in 2014, Travel dominated funding share in Mobile, accounting for 35% of all VC dollars to Mobile startups. Photo garnered the second most funding largely due to Snapchat’s $485.6M Series D at 7%.

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Healthcare VC funding totaled $8.2B in 2014, up 28% YoY. Q2’14 was the biggest quarter on both a funding and deals basis buoyed by Intarcia Therapeutics’ $200M growth equity round.

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2013 $6.4 550

2014 $8.2 537

YoY Growth 28% -2%

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Leading life sciences hubs Cambridge and San Diego saw the most healthcare VC deals in 2014. RNA therapeutics company Moderna’s $450M Series E deal in December was the biggest of the year and in biotech history.

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Cambridge 41 $1,182 Moderna Series E $450 Q4'14

San Diego 30 $452 Intarcia Therapeutics Growth Equity $200 Q2'14

Redwood City 21 $556 Juno Therapeutics Series B $134 Q3'14

San Francisco 19 $377 Alignment Healthcare Growth Equity $125 Q2'14

Menlo Park 15 $261 InVitae Series F $120 Q4'14

Sunnyvale 11 $121 Naurex Series C $80 Q4'14

New York 11 $121 Spark Therapeutics Series B $73 Q2'14

Waltham 10 $171 Melinta Therapeutics Growth Equity $70 Q1'14

Seattle 9 $266 Data Driven Delivery Systems Series B $61 Q3'14

South San Francisco 9 $193 Kolltan Pharmaceuticals Series D $60 Q1'14

Top Cities for Healthcare: 2014 Top Healthcare Deals: 2014


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California and Massachusetts continued their dominance of healthcare venture deals in 2014, taking 55% of all deal activity in the sector. Pennsylvania’s growing life sciences hub took 5% of all deals.

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California and Massachusetts owned healthcare VC funding in 2014, taking 65% of total funding share.

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Seed and Series A deals took 36% of deal share in 2014, down from 38% in 2013. Later-stage deals both ticked up modestly, with Series D+ rounds accounting for 24% of all healthcare deals versus 21% in the year prior.

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Series A rounds in the healthcare sector saw the largest drop in funding share across all stages to 16% from 23% in 2013. Late-stage rounds both saw modest increases on a YoY basis, while Series B deal share rose to 29% from 24%.

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For the second straight year, medical device companies garnered the most healthcare deals of any industry. Biotech and drug discovery rounded out the top three, as the three industries combined to take over 7 of every 10 healthcare deals in 2014.

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Funding share to medical devices firms took 28% of healthcare VC funding in 2014. Biotech firms trailed closely with a 27% funding share, while only three industries saw more than 10% of healthcare dollars.

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After deal activity fell 22% in 2013 compared to 2012, 2014 saw a smaller 2% drop in YoY deals. Total funding increased 17% YoY which was a good sign for green tech although the year ended on a sour note with funding and deals declining in both Q3’14 and Q4’14.

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2013 $1.7 161

2014 $2.0 158

YoY Growth 17% -2%

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San Francisco led the list for Green Tech VC by overall deals and dollars deployed. Solar service company SunRun had the biggest round of the year in a $150M Series E financing that valued the company at $1B.

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San Francisco 10 $213 SunRun Series E $150 Q2'14

Oakland 9 $160 Atieva Series C $100 Q2'14

Boston 8 $88 Sungevity Growth Equity $70 Q2'14

Austin 7 $90 LanzaTech Series D $60 Q1'14

San Jose 5 $32 GlassPoint Solar Series C $53 Q3'14

New York 5 $9 Cool Planet Energy Systems Series D - III $51 Q1'14

San Diego 4 $32 SolarBridge Technologies Series E $42 Q1'14

Scotts Valley 4 $18 Quench USA Growth Equity $39 Q1'14

Menlo Park 4 $63 Kateeva Series D $38 Q3'14

Cambridge 2 $37 Chromatin Series E $36 Q1'14

Top Cities for Green Tech: 2014 Top Green Tech Deals: 2014

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California dominated green tech VC, taking 42% of deals in 2014 followed by Massachusetts and Texas at 12% and 7%, respectively.

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California, Massachusetts and Texas combined to take 70% of green tech funding in 2014, down from 77% in 2013. Pennsylvania and Illinois each accounted for 6% as well behind multiple $20M+ financings.

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Series B deal share fell from 26% to 18% YoY in 2014, while Series C deal share fell to 20%. Meanwhile each end of the spectrum saw deal share increase drastically as Seed jumped to 13% deal share, while Series E+ grew to 18% in 2014 from 10% a year prior.

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Mid-stage funding share followed the deal share trends. Series E+ dollar share jumped drastically from 17% in 2013 to 30% in 2014 in part due to SunRun’s $150M Series E and Sungevity’s $70M growth equity financing.

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Renewables took 20% of all green tech VC deals in 2014. Green tech software and services, energy efficiency, and green/environmental software companies each took 8% of deals in the space.

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Renewables led all green tech industries in VC dollar share as the previously-mentioned SunRun $150M financing was the largest in all of green tech in 2014.

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California saw another strong year in venture capital. On a year-over-year basis, California deals increased a modest 13% while funding levels were up 81%, ballooning to $26.8B in 2014.

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2013 $14.8 1449

2014 $26.8 1631

YoY Growth 81% 13%

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The usual suspects of SF, Palo Alto, and Mountain View dominated with the most deals in California in 2014. Snapchat was the only non-Valley based company to make the top 10.

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San Francisco 584 $10,948 Uber Series E $1,200 Q4'14

Palo Alto 103 $2,872 Uber Series D $1,200 Q2'14

Mountain View 85 $1,715 Cloudera Series F $900 Q1'14

Sunnyvale 66 $731 Snapchat Series D $486 Q4'14

San Jose 62 $1,095 AirBnB Series D $475 Q2'14

San Diego 60 $715 Palantir Technologies Series H - III $337 Q3'14

San Mateo 59 $514 TangoMe Series D $280 Q1'14

Redwood City 59 $1,324 SurveyMonkey Private Equity - II $250 Q4'14

Menlo Park 55 $603 Lyft Series D $250 Q2'14

Santa Clara 39 $452 Pure Storage Series F $225 Q2'14

Top Cities in California: 2014 Top California Deals: 2014


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Tech sectors (Internet, mobile, software, computer hardware, electronics) accounted for 79% of all VC deals in California in 2014.

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Mobile VC funding jumped from 15% to 23% in 2014 behind multiple mega-financings to Uber. The Internet sector led with 41% of total VC funding in California. Healthcare trailed at 13%.

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Early-stage deal share at the Seed and Series A stage accounted for a combined 55% of all California deals in 2014. All other stages remained relatively range-bound versus 2013.

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After a down 2013, Series D and E+ VC dollar share in California bounced back. All other stages were casualties, all falling YoY in 2014.

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Deal activity finished strong in Massachusetts giving the state 9% YoY growth in deals in 2014. Mass. also finished the year strong on a funding basis, with an eight quarter high in VC funding at $1.6B which resulted in 37% funding growth YoY.

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2013 $3.0 318

2014 $4.2 346

YoY Growth 37% 9%

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Cambridge and Boston combined to take $2.42B across 195 deals. Healthcare accounted for 5 of the top 10 deals in Massachusetts in 2014.

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Boston 103 $817 Moderna Series E $450 Q4'14

Cambridge 92 $1,602 ActiFio Series E $100 Q1'14

Waltham 26 $429 SimpliSafe Series A $57 Q2'14

Burlington 10 $201 Thinking Phone Networks Series D $57 Q4'14

Woburn 9 $144 Civitas Therapeutics Series C $55 Q3'14

Watertown 8 $75 Syros Pharmaceuticals Series B $53 Q4'14

Acton 8 $59 Kaminario Series E $53 Q4'14

Wellesley Hills 4 $16 Blueprint Medicines Series C $50 Q4'14

Westborough 4 $20 Acquia Series F $50 Q2'14

Somerville 4 $10 Seres Health Series C $48 Q4'14

Top Cities in Massachusetts: 2014 Top Massachusetts Deals: 2014


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Internet led Massachusetts’ deal share in 2014 at 37% followed closely by healthcare, which fell to 26% deal share versus 30% in 2013. Mobile & Telecom came in a distant third in the state at 14%.

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While the Internet sector topped 2014 deal activity in Mass., healthcare took a whopping 46% of funding share vs. Internet funding, which made up 25% of all VC Funding in the state.

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Series E+ deal share grew from 7% of overall deal volume in Mass. in 2013 to 10% in 2014. Series A saw the most deals across the spectrum taking 28% of deal share in the state.

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After 2013 saw Series B deals take 31% of all funding, funding share fell to 20%, while Series E+ funding share skyrocketed from 17% to 29% funding share in 2014 behind Moderna’s $450M Series E and ActiFio’s $100M Series E.

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Venture capital funding levels broke out in NY in 2014 with every quarter clocking in above $1B in total funding. NY VC funding was up 53% YoY while deals grew at a more modest 7% YoY.

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2013 $2.9 396

2014 $4.5 422

YoY Growth 53% 7%

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New York saw multiple nine-figure deals in 2014. Top deals covered a broad array of industries ranging from eCommerce to Media to Finance. Real estate venture, WeWork, which offers co-working spaces, had 2 of the 3 largest NY deals of the year.

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New York 365 $3,957 WeWork Series B $355 Q4'14

Brooklyn 33 $446 Vice Media Growth Equity $250 Q3'14

Long Island City 5 $48 WeWork Series A $157 Q1'14

Rochester 3 $5 Flatiron Health Series B $130 Q2'14

Troy 2 $3 Oscar Health Insurance Co. Series A $80 Q2'14

West Henrietta 2 $6 OnDeck Capital Series E $77 Q1'14

Forest Hills 2 $5 IEX Group Series C $75 Q3'14

Geneva 1 $2 Harry's Razor Company Series B $75 Q4'14

Victor 1 $1 Harry's Razor Company Series A $75 Q1'14

Tappan 1 $1 FanDuel Series D $70 Q3'14

Top Cities in New York: 2014 Top New York Deals: 2014

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63% of deals in New York went to Internet firms in 2014. Mobile saw an increased deal share for the second straight year at 19%, coming in at a solid #2 to Internet in NY.

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2014 saw 67% of venture capital dollars in NY go to the Internet sector, followed by Mobile & Telecom at 9% of funding share. Business Products & Services were buoyed by a combined $512M in funding to co-working space WeWork.

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Seed deal share grew from 34% to 40% of all NY VC deals in 2014. Series A deal share decreased for the third straight year, falling from 31% in 2012 to 28% in 2013 and reaching just 26% in 2014.

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With huge deals including Flatiron Health in 2014, Series B jumped to a 32% funding share for the year. Series C and D deal share fell drastically as a result of this, while Series E+ deals saw modest growth to 19% funding share behind large deals including now-public OnDeck Capital.

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Washington funding grew 34% YoY behind several sizable deals led by Juno Therapeutics. But yearly deal totals were down 17% YoY.

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2013 $0.9 117

2014 $1.1 97

YoY Growth 34% -17%

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Seattle took the lion’s share of venture capital deals and dollars in Washington. Juno Therapeutics saw the largest deal in the state for the second straight year, followed by real estate tech company Redfin and wire data analytics company ExtraHop Networks.

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Seattle 71 $853 Juno Therapeutics Series B $134 Q3'14

Redmond 7 $45 Redfin Series G $71 Q4'14

Bellevue 7 $86 ExtraHop Networks Series C $41 Q2'14

Kirkland 5 $56 Avvo Series D $38 Q2'14

Bainbridge Island 2 $56 SmartSheet Series E $35 Q2'14

Bellingham 1 $4 Skytap Series D $35 Q4'14

Tacoma 1 $14 Juno Therapeutics Series A - III $31 Q2'14

Renton 1 $5 Integrated Diagnostics Series B $30 Q2'14

Arlington 1 $17 Julep Beauty Series C $30 Q2'14

Liberty Lake 1 $10 Avalara Series E $30 Q1'14

Top Cities in Washington: 2014 Top Washington Deals: 2014


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The Internet sector took nearly half of the venture capital deals in Washington in 2014. Mobile overtook healthcare in 2014, taking 16% of deals, as healthcare fell from 20% in 2013 to just 13% in 2014.

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Internet funding in Washington accounted for 44% of all VC dollars in 2014 taking three of the five largest deals in the state. Healthcare fell to a 28% funding share, while mobile and software were the only other sectors with more than 5% funding share.

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After seed-stage deals grew from 20% in 2012 to 28% in 2013, it fell back to 24% in 2014.

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Funding share to Series A rounds fell from 30% in 2013 to 22% in 2014, while all later stages saw modest gains. Series B rounds saw the largest growth driven by Juno Therapeutics $134M financing.

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Texas saw funding activity hit an eight-quarter high in Q1’14. Compared to 2013, funding was up 21% while deals steadily grew up 8%.

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2013 $1.0 132

2014 $1.2 143

YoY Growth 21% 8%

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Austin dominated Texas venture capital financing activity in 2014, seeing over 5x as much funding as the second most active city, Houston. Geospatial solutions provider Surveying and Mapping’s $123M growth equity round was the biggest of the year.

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Austin 83 $741 Surveying and Mapping Growth Equity - II $123 Q1'14

Houston 15 $141 Spiceworks Series E $57 Q1'14

Dallas 8 $74 ZS Pharma Series D $55 Q1'14

Plano 7 $57 Bellicum Pharmaceuticals Series C $55 Q3'14

San Antonio 6 $41 TelaDoc Series F $50 Q3'14

Tomball 2 $4 BigCommerce Series D $50 Q4'14

Georgetown 2 $7 SolarBridge Technologies Series E $42 Q1'14

Richardson 2 $1 Surveying and Mapping Growth Equity $37 Q1'14

Grand Prairie 2 $18 Spredfast Series D $33 Q1'14

Spring 2 $2 Phunware Series E $30 Q1'14

Top Cities in Texas: 2014 Top Texas Deals: 2014

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Concentrated primarily in Austin, Internet and mobile combined to take 50% of Texas VC deals in 2014. Healthcare saw 16% of deals in the state.

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On the funding front, Internet, healthcare, and software all took over 20% of overall share. Software’s 22% funding share was largely driven by the state’s biggest deal of the year, a $123M growth equity financing for Surveying and Mapping.

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Seed and Series A activity took a combined 49% of deal volume in Texas versus 44% in 2013 as VCs invested in more seed-stage deals. Series D deal share grew modestly to 8%, while all other stages ticked down YoY.

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After eRecyclingCorps $105M round buoyed Series C dollar share in 2013, Series D and E+ funding share grew drastically behind multiple $50M+ fundings.

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We encourage you to review the methodology and definitions employed by us to better understand the numbers presented in this report. If you have any questions about our definitions or methodological principles, we encourage you to reach out to us directly.

What is included? Equity financings into emerging companies. Funding must come from venture capital firms including corporate venture groups. • Fundings of only private companies. Public companies of any kind

on any exchange (including Pink Sheets) are excluded from our numbers even if they received investment by a venture firm(s)

• Companies must be headquartered in the USA. Our geographic data is based on the city and state where the company receiving investment is headquartered. If a company has a satellite office/presence in multiple cities or was founded in a particular city but has moved its HQ, our results reflect only this HQ address.

• Only include the investment made in the quarter for tranched investments. If a company does a second closing of its Series B round for $5M and previously had closed $2M in a prior quarter, only the $5M is reflected in our results.

• Round #s reflect what has closed –not what is intended. If a company indicates the closing of $5M out of a desired raise of $15M, our numbers reflect only the amount which has closed.

• Only verifiable fundings are included. Fundings are verified via (1) various federal & state regulatory filings (2) direct confirmation with firm or investor or (3) press release.

• Funding close date matters. Fundings are provided based on funding close date and not on announcement date.

What is not? • Angel investment. These are not included in numbers unless an investment round

included Angels investing alongside a venture capital firm or corporate venture group.

• No contingent funding. If a company receives a commitment for $20M subject to hitting certain milestones but first gets $8M, only the $8M is included in our data.

• No business development/R&D arrangements whether transferable into equity now, later or never. If a company signs a $300M R&D partnership with a larger corporation, this is not equity financing nor is it from venture capital firms. As a result, it is not included.

• Buyouts, Consolidations and Recapitalizations. All three of these of transaction types are commonly employed by private equity firms and are tracked by CB Insights. However, they are excluded for the purposes of this report. Private equity investments into companies which may have received venture capital investment prior are also not included.

• Private placements. These investments also known as PIPEs (Private Investment in Public Equities) even if made by a venture capital firm(s)

• are not included. • Debt/loans of any kind. Venture debt or any kind of debt/loan issued to emerging,

startup companies even if included as an additional part of an equity financing is not included. If a company receives $3M with $2M from venture investors and $1M in debt, only the $2M is included in these statistics.

• Government funding. Grants, loans, equity financings by the federal government, state agencies or public -private partnerships to

• emerging, startup companies are not included. Strictly venture or corporate venture outfits.

• Incubator investments. Investments of money as equity or debt and/or services by incubators are not included.

• Strategic corporate investments. Corporations making strategic investments in companies but not as part of a specific organized venture group are not included.

The 2014 U.S. Venture Capital Year in Review: Financing & Exit Analysis

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