Capital Funding Top 10 Funded B2B Categories for companies with USA headquarters[1] as of December 1st 2019
[1] Source: Crunchbase, excludes mobile, credit, fraud, leasing, lending, video streaming, college, education, transportation, B2C, shopping. Overlap across categories exists. This data is not intended to be exhaustive but merely an illustrative snapshot.
Funding over the past few years continues to trend positively propelled by emerging new technologies beyond the cloud across industries, but forecast below for 2019 the funding amount across North America compared to 2017 and 2018
- In 2019, more than 7,846 firms funded ($213B captial invested) versus 11,229 firms funded in 2018 for a total of $234B compared to 10,849 deals in 2017 for $184B
- 203 USA startups founded in 2019 with funding YTD
Greater number of deals and continuing positive trend increase for AI, and Financial while Internet Services and Professional Services deal count are flat or minimally decreasing over the past period.