Seed to Series C: The Essential Guide to Business Funding

We are in an age of superabundant capital. With sky-high valuations and everincreasing fund sizes, it’s obvious that venture capital (VC) investors are aggressively competing to back the next big thing. Taking the amount of funding raised by VC firms and the number of investments made in 2018 as indicators, the European VC landscape has not been in such good health since the 2007 financial crisis. By October, investors had poured an eyewatering €14.8bn into European-focused funds and deployed capital across 2,643 investments. For context, between 2008- 2015, European-focused fundraising failed to attract over €10bn in any given year. Should trends continue through to the final quarter, it’s predicted 2018 will be a record-breaking year for European venture capital. Europe has always been a preeminent destination for VC funding; with a deep pool of immensely talented entrepreneurs, globally connected cities with strong infrastructure, and unfettered access to the largest single market in the world, that’s no surprise. Globally, some of the most successful VC-backed companies were born out of European capitals – anyone still addicted to Angry Birds (King Digital Entertainment), rented someone else’s apartment (Airbnb) or enjoyed streaming music for free (Spotify) has benefitted from their talent and their ability to access private capital as they grow their business.

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