A total of 10,384 venture capital (VC) funding deals with disclosed funding rounds were announced globally during 2024, which is a decline of 11.9% compared to the 11,786 VC deals announced during the previous year.
Among all VC funding rounds, early-stage funding rounds* witnessed a significant decline in their volume last year compared to 2023, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Aurojyoti Bose, Lead Analyst at GlobalData, said: “Even though most of the funding rounds experienced a decrease in volume, the majority of the overall decline is driven by a double-digit fall in the number of early-stage funding rounds during 2024 compared to 2023.”
An analysis of GlobalData’s Deals Database reveals that the total number of early-stage funding rounds declined by 14.2% in 2024 compared to 2023. A total of 8,086 early-stage funding rounds (comprising 4,457 Seed rounds and 3,629 Series A funding rounds) were announced globally during 2024 compared to the previous year’s announcement of 9,424 early-stage funding rounds that included 5,359 Seed rounds and 4,065 Series A funding rounds.
However, despite the decline, early-stage funding rounds continued to dominate the global VC funding landscape in 2024. These accounted for a 77.9% share of the total number of VC deals with disclosed funding rounds announced globally during 2024.
Meanwhile, the number of growth, expansion and late-stage funding rounds** declined by 2.7% from 2,362 VC deals in 2023 to 2,298 VC deals in 2024. Growth, expansion and late-stage funding rounds collectively accounted for a 22.1% share of the total number of VC deals with disclosed funding rounds announced globally during 2024.
