London Set to Become Key European Investment Hub
qodeo, a provider of financial data to the global venture community, has unveiled research that Venture Capital (VC) firms are seeing three times more investment opportunities than Private Equity (PE) firms, but despite this, PE firms are twice as likely to invest as VCs.
Early stage VCs see, on average, 900 business plans per year, and deal flow is at an historic high, given the weight of capital raised since 2012. However, ‘Time to Exit’ has extended and the UK is more risk averse than the US, at early stage investment. Less than 10 percent of UK VC & PE firms hold pre-revenue companies in their portfolios compared to 24 percent in the US.
