Introduction The Top Tier team is excited to continue to increase presence in Europe by opening an office in London! After evaluating the global VC landscape in preparation for our last venture fund of funds in 2017, our team uncovered some interesting facts amongst our portfolios. We found that our portfolio companies in Europe and…
One of the trends we’ve been tracking here at Top Tier is what we like to call the rise of the “Private Company IPO”. The Private Company IPO reflects the upsurge of rapidly growing “unicorn” companies with $1B+ private valuations raising increasingly large growth rounds. These rounds play a dual role: providing working capital to…
PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association recently released their half-year venture capital market trends report – the 2Q 2018 Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor. In the report the two groups use their collective databases to break down industry statistics ranging from fundraising to valuations.
The healthcare venture capital market continues to be an exciting area of focus for Top Tier. Being located in the heart of San Francisco, we’re lucky that we are able to enjoy the heavy saturation of healthcare investors. In this blog we’ll outline some of the trends that we saw earlier this year at the…
In our previous post, we discussed trends in the venture capital industry for the year 2017 based on publicly available data. To dig deeper we decided to use our own data to discuss one of the more prevalent topics of 2017: liquidity. An early glimpse at the acquisition market in 2017 indicated that this was…
When looking back at 2017 in venture capital, the year actually looked surprisingly like 2016. We were concerned even then about capital inflows, valuations, and the low number of IPOs. These issues continued throughout 2017. On the positive side, however, in 2017 we saw the stock market reach all-time highs, an increased number of buyers…
It’s that time of the year again! Time to start holiday shopping, and we have many gifts perfect for all of your friends and family members. We have collected a list of our top products of the year to help you pick out the latest technology-driven gifts. Please see below our highlights across entertainment, fashion,…
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have raised $1.5B in 2017 (through 8/30) and this new fundraising mechanism has generated significant buzz and excitement from mainstream media and investors alike. ICOs’ evasion of financial and legal regulation thus far has allowed for investors to come from all backgrounds including institutional investors, angel investors, consumers, and cryptocurrency miners.…
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The evolution of early stage VC ecosystem has led to the proliferation of many new venture funds started by former angels, operators, and existing VCs. According to Pitchbook, since 2014, there have been nearly 100 first-time funds which raised a total of $7.3B. As many of these funds come back to market, the micro VC…