A brief look at the funding environment for startups in the United States with a particular focus on New York. The report is broken down by stage of funding including angel funding and venture capital backed rounds.

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3. THE STATE OF VENTURE CAPITAL AND ANGEL
FUNDING FOR AUGUST 2014
we’ve analyzed some publicly available data from Crunchbase and with the use of some Excel
maneuvering, we present the following statistics regarding the the state of venture capital
and angel funding in New York City and nationally for AUGUST 2014.
All data is broken down by stage of funding:
Angel and seed
Series A
Series B
Series C+

4. # of angel/seed deals:
average deal size:
aggregate amount:
ANGEL AND SEED FUNDING AUGUST 2014
nyc
14
$1,019,643
$14.28 million
us
130
$1,070,978
$139.23M million
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
+111%
KEY TAKEAWAYS:

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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
+130%

7. # of series a deals:
average deal size:
aggregate amount:
SERIES A FUNDING AUGUST 2014
nyc
7
$7.34 million
$51.4 million
us
57
$7.17 million
$394 Million
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
38%

8. Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
23%

9. # of series b deals:
average deal size:
aggregate amount:
SERIES B FUNDING AUGUST 2014
nyc
5
$15.5 million
$77.5 Million
us
40
$18.31 Million
$1.17 Billion
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
51%
KEY TAKEAWAYS:

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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
18%
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14. # of series C+ deals:
average deal size:
aggregate amount:
SERIES C+ FUNDING AUGUST 2014
nyc
5
$32.3 million
$161 Million
us
40
$29.22 Million
$1.17 billion
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
34%
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Data credit: CC by CrunchBase (http://static.crunchbase.com/exports/crunchbase_YEARly_export.xlsx)
Δ FROM 2013 AVG
18%
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