Venture deals for female founders fall to pre-2021 levels
Halfway through 2024, funding for startups founded by women is down sharply compared to recent years, our female founders dashboard shows.
Startups with at least one female founder garnered $15.4 billion across 1,487 deals through the first six months of 2024. This is the lowest amount of capital raised in H1 since 2020.
While the share of US VC capital going to female-only founded companies remains relatively stable, the share for startups with both male and female founders fell from 26% to 14.8% year-over-year, largely due to unusually large rounds from female-co founded OpenAI and Anthropic.
Notable deals so far this year include a $1 billion Series F for Scale AI, co-founded by Lucy Guo, and a $259 Series C for biopharmaceutical company Alumis, founded by June Lee.
Carveouts saw a significant spike in Q1, accounting for 15.5% of buyout deals in the middle market.
These transactions, which offer sellers flexibility and liquidity while providing PE buyers with acquisition opportunities, have proven to be a useful tool in the current market environment.
DC Advisory's US Private Equity Mid-Market Monitor: Rare Sighting
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And they're off: OpenAI, Anthropic and the other huge foundational model providers have emerged as the thoroughbreds of the current AI craze—raising the largest sums, besting the big tech giants' models and attracting investor attention in the secondary market.
Our recent Emerging Tech Research sizes up the key players, handicapping the horse race and investment opportunities. Senior Analyst Brendan Burke tracks commercial and technical progress for each major startup in AI research.
Supreme Court's Purdue ruling may be more limited than some fear
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The Supreme Court's rejection of Purdue Pharma's proposed reorganization plan was among its recent verdicts to make waves beyond the courtroom.
Dissenting justices warned it would imperil the ability of Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases to resolve mass tort liabilities. But the circumstances of the case suggest the repercussions may be more limited.
We've launched our revamped 2024 Sustainable Investment Survey to take a closer look at what investors are doing and why—including the current events influencing sustainable investing practices.
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Overseed, a French biotech startup that develops medicines derived from cannabis, has raised €6.7 million in a Series A that includes Blast.Club and UI Investissement
Dice, an AI-powered enterprise spend management platform based in India, has raised 420 million rupees (around $5 million) in a Series A led by Dallas Venture Capital.
PSG Equity has invested in Corilus, a provider of medical software solutions serving the primary care market in Belgium.
Exits & IPOs
Bregal Unternehmerkapital has acquired a majority stake in BSI Software, a German provider of software solutions for customer relationship management and customer experience, from Swiss firm Capvis.
