Exits of venture-backed companies
Total exit value, deal count and median EV/Revenue per year, split into first-time versus repeat exits, with a country bar, a value-versus-VC-invested scatter, a continent bubble chart that can also show every VC-backed company worth $1B or more as private, acquired or public, and the spread between a routine exit and a landmark one underneath.
Exits by year
First-time exits by country
Top HQ countries by total first-time exit value over the selected window — combining acquisitions, buyouts and IPOs (IPOs valued at market cap at listing). Use the slider to widen or narrow the time horizon, and hover any row to see the biggest deals feeding the total and audit which exits are doing the work.
Exit value vs VC invested
Each flag is one country: VC raised by its exited companies runs left to right, the value of those exits bottom to top, and the flag scales with the number of exits. Both axes are logarithmic. The diagonal guides mark the ratio between the two — a country above the 10× line saw its exits return more than ten times the VC that went into them. Hover a flag for the numbers. The region, deal-type, scope and time filters above apply here too.
Exits by continent
Each bubble is one VC-backed exit, sized by deal value. First-time exits are solid; repeat exits are faded. Pick one year and the bubbles group by HQ continent; pick several and they group by year, oldest on the left. Region narrows the set. Hover for company-level detail.
Switch to $1B+ companies to see every VC-backed company worth $1B or more, exited or not. Each bubble is one company, sized by its latest valuation, in a table by HQ continent and by where its value sits today: still private, held inside an acquirer, or listed on a public market.
Median size by cohort
Every chart above sums exits. This one ranks them: each cohort’s disclosed exits sorted by size, then read at four points — the median, the top 25%, the top 10% and the top 1%. Hover any bar for the trades sitting at that level.
Disclosed exits above $10K, sized by the transaction amount, or the recorded valuation where the amount is undisclosed.
Exit sizes in two regions
Each box is the middle half of a cohort’s exits and the bar across it is the median. The ticks above mark the top 10% and the top 1%. Dots are individual exits, up to 200 per box. On the linear scale the largest exits run off the axis and are named on hover; Log shows the whole range. This chart starts on all exits, which includes a company’s second and third.
Disclosed exits above $10K, sized by the transaction amount, or the recorded valuation where the amount is undisclosed.
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