{"id":72584,"date":"2020-01-17T01:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=72584"},"modified":"2020-01-17T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:11:26","slug":"despite-some-pretty-notable-flops-vc-had-a-good-year-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2020\/despite-some-pretty-notable-flops-vc-had-a-good-year-in-2019.html","title":{"rendered":"Despite some pretty notable flops, VC had a good year in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Venture Capital had some pretty epic failures in 2019. But even with a few speedbumps, new data from PitchBook shows that VCs ended the year with deal activity on par with 2018&#8217;s record setting figures. VC&#8217;s posted $250 billion worth of exits &#8211; 80% of which came from VC-backed IPOs. 2019 also recorded 237 megadeals, an 11.8% gain on 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/677222\/Despite_some_pretty_notable_flops_VC_had_a722.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Venture Capital had some pretty epic failures in 2019. But even with a few speedbumps, new data from PitchBook shows that VCs ended the year with deal activity on par with 2018&#8217;s record setting figures. VC&#8217;s posted $250 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72585,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72584\/revisions\/72585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}