New tech startups in Silicon Valley

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Throughout its history, Silicon Valley has dominated the spotlight for promoting and financing the growth of emerging tech companies. Today Silicon Valley continues to remain the center of tech innovation, in large part, because the startup hotbed now spills well into the San Francisco Peninsula. Among the hundreds of emerging tech companies now headquartered in San Francisco are Pinterest, Square and Uber.

And when we look at data across the entire San Francisco Bay Area, it is clear that the Silicon Valley tech hub is the 800 lb. gorilla when it comes to both venture-backed tech financing and exit activity. Since the start of 2009, venture capital firms have deployed .5 billion across 3, 308 deals into Silicon Valley-based tech startups. In fact, Silicon Valley has consistently taken over 40% of venture capital deals and over 50% of funding to tech startups across seven major U.S. venture hubs including New York and Massachusetts.

Looking at exit activity across those same tech hubs, Silicon Valley companies make up over 1/2 of the top 50 largest venture-backed tech exits and the lion’s share of value as measured by exit valuation since 2012. Clearly, Silicon Valley continues to dominate the attention of hungry tech entrepreneurs striving to build the next big thing and the venture capital tech investors hoping to back them.

The 155-page Silicon Valley Tech Venture Capital Almanac offers the most detailed view of the Silicon Valley venture capital ecosystem, and the notable investors within it, ever. Specifically, the full report covers:

Below is a high-level summary of some of the report’s highlights. For all of the findings, download the entire 155-page report free of charge.

VC Financing Trends in Silicon Valley Tech

Silicon Valley venture capital investments in tech continue to grow unabated. Since the start of 2009, Silicon Valley tech startups have raised over $31 billion across 3, 308 deals. And VC financing is not slowing down anytime soon. 2013 is on pace for a five-year high in venture capital and funding activity, as the first three quarters of 2013 saw nearly 5% more dollars and 8% more deals as compared to the first three quarters of 2012. Of note, Q3 2013 was the strongest quarter in Silicon Valley tech in the past five years, buoyed by mega-deals to Uber, Palantir and Pure Storage.

Peeling back Silicon Valley tech deal activity since 2009 reveals that seed investments have seen a massive increase over time. In fact, seed deal share in Silicon Valley has jumped from 7% in 2009 to 29% in 2013 year-to-date. In 2012, Silicon Valley tech deals at the Seed and Series A stage combined to take 23% of funding share in 2012, a four year high. Despite the early-stage boom, late-stage funding to Silicon Vallay remains strong. After dipping in 2010, late-stage funding share (Series D+) has grown consecutively for the past two years and takes nearly 40% of funding share in 2013 to-date.