Overview

MarktoMarket presents its Q3 2023 UK Equity Fundraising Report. The report covers data on equity fundraising activity by UK private companies from 1 July 2023 to 30 September 2023.

The data used in this report has been extracted from the MarktoMarket platform, which captures announced and unannounced fundraising activity by UK-registered businesses.

Highlights

We segment the market into stages, based on the quantum of capital raised, as follows

Whole of market

Our Whole of Market data includes all UK equity fundraising events of greater than £250,000.

Figure 1. January 2021 – September 2023 Monthly Deal Volumes

The positive start to 2023 has been eroded as the year has progressed.

Figure 2. Q3 2023 v Q3 2022 Deal Volumes

There has been a decline in deal volumes across all stages, with the greatest fall in Series B+ transactions.

Figure 3. January 2021 – September 2023 Monthly 2022 Deal Value

The total value of capital invested fell from February 2022, with the decline particularly prevalent at the Series B+ stage.

Full details on Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A and Series B+ activity are available to MarktoMarket subscribers in the full Indices report. You can request it by emailing olga@marktomarket.io

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