Strength through a diversified economy likely helped the region have its second-best quarter ever for venture capital deals, per PACT’s latest trends report.
While 2020 was a disruptive year for just about every market and industry imaginable, startups and venture capitalists found their footing in the latter half of the year.
It’s a somewhat surprising trend outlined in
which uses
PitchBook
data to analyze how Philadelphia fared amid the pandemic. We saw similar trends and numbers from a recent
PricewaterhouseCoopers/CB Insights MoneyTree report
.
Basically, despite the pandemic, the region saw a fairly impressive year in deals.
In the region, companies raised $1.8 billion across 221 venture deals by the year’s end, recording the region’s second-highest annual deal value and third-highest deal count despite the pandemic’s economic impact.
The data show that Q1 and Q2 of 2020 saw dips in investments — likely as businesses braced for impact early in the pandemic — but by Q3, investors were pouring money into area companies. It was Philadelphia’s second-highest quarter in deals, and the second time the region raised more than $1 billion in a quarter.
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