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, a private / acquired / public split of enterprise value 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.
Value by ownership status
The charts above count exit events. This one counts the stock behind them: the combined enterprise value of every VC-backed company founded since 1990 and still operating, split by where that value sits today — still private, held inside an acquirer, or listed on a public market. As a share of each region's total, that split says how much of an ecosystem's value has reached liquidity. Switch to Over time to read every year at once.
Public is market capitalisation; Acquired is the value of companies bought and not separately listed; Private is everything else. Companies keep counting after they exit, so a sale or a listing moves value between bands, not out of the total. Same series as combined enterprise value over time.
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.
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