Global VC investments rose 5.4% to $368.5B in 2024, but deals fell 17% | NVCA/Pitchbook
VentureBeat January 6, 2025
Global venture capital investments rose to $368.5 billion in 2024, up 5.4% from $349.4 billion a year earlier, according to the first look at the Q4 2024 Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor report.
But the number of global deals in 2024 fell 17% to 35,686 from 43,320 a year earlier in 2023. AI deals as a percentage of all deals rose for the year, as you can see in the chart below.
The 2024 global deals are down 50.9% from $751.5 billion in the peak year of 2021 and down 37% from 57,068 in deal count in 2021.
AI deals are big part of the picture now. There were 8,343 global AI deals in 2024, down 3.6% from 8,661 in 2023 and...