Number and amounts of announced funding rounds over the past 6 months*
* All data from crunchbase, as of March 6th, 2023
Software startups are once again the most popular investments
- During the month of February, 410 financing rounds were announced.
- The total amount invested in the announced financing rounds decreased to $2.7bn from $3.4bn in January.
- Once again, most investments were made in Software companies, amounting to 106 investments, followed by information technology (61). In February, investments in AI companies make up the third place (41).
Top 10 industries of financed startups according to the number of conducted investments
Antler is the most active investor of February; 164 seed rounds were conducted
Investors with the highest number of investments in February
Number and total volume of financing rounds per stage
Largest round was a Series B Round of $135.0mn
In February, most investments rounds were Seed Rounds. Despite that, the largest volume of invested money was in 56 Series A Rounds ($712.1mn).
London, UK, is once again the European startup hotspot of the month
- Not only were the most investments conducted in the UK (#117), but the highest volume was also invested there during February ($964.6mn).
- When ranking by invested volume instead of number of investments, Copenhagen ($144.7) takes the third place for cities and Denmark ($193.7) fourth place for countries.
In the spotlight: hemab raised $135mn in February with the help of 9 investors
Company
Industry
Biotech/Pharmaceutical
Founded in
2017, Copenhagen
One-Sentence-Pitch
Hemab is a clinical-stage biotech company developing prophylactic therapeutics for serious, underserved bleeding and thrombotic disorders.
Financing round
Money raised
$135mn
Company valuation
Series B
Type of financing round
Series B
Comment/Quote
The financing will support Hemab’s scientific and corporate growth plans through 2025, including completion of two Phase 1/2 clinical studies, initiation of pivotal studies and future pipeline evolution. (BioSpace.com)
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