{"id":1224,"date":"2021-06-01T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.exg-consulting.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:41:50","slug":"is-early-stage-venture-becoming-a-growth-investors-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/is-early-stage-venture-becoming-a-growth-investors-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Is early-stage venture becoming a growth investor&#8217;s game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Global venture funding hit an all-time high in the first quarter of 2021. That sort of increase in venture funding is typically attributable to growth in late-stage funding. But, along with a surge in late-stage funding, there is also a marked increase in early-stage funding last quarter, with $39 billion invested in nascent startups, up from $25 billion in the fourth quarter and $22 billion in the first quarter of 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-style-details-style-1 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><\/summary>\n<p>The Q1 figure marks an all-time global high for early-stage funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growth equity leads early stage The most active investor leading at the Series A and B stages was, surprisingly enough, a growth-stage investor: Insight Partners, which led six Series A fundings. The firm is not alone: Private equity investors now lead just shy of a quarter of all Series A and B fundings, up from 15 percent a decade earlier, relative to venture and micro venture leads.<br><br><em>Post by Jaime Medina, SISOCO PARTNERS.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global venture funding hit an all-time high in the first quarter of 2021. That sort of increase in venture funding is typically attributable to growth in late-stage funding. But, along with a surge in late-stage funding, there is also a marked increase in early-stage funding last quarter, with $39 billion invested in nascent startups, up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}