Startup survival and exit chances

You may have seen this slide in the Atomico’s State of European Tech presentation, based on Dealroom data. The implications are interesting from the perspective of both the founders and the investors. All other things equal, which is the better investment: seed, A, B, C…. ? Are the consecutive venture round fairly priced relatively to each other?

Below is a short Dealroom slide deck with additional insights.

Question for VCs: what is the relative % dilution between the consecutive venture round series (A, B, C, ..)? Coming soon with a valuation survey! Please contact us if you are interested in helping us distributing this survey.