Financiranje tveganega kapitala novoustanovljenim podjetjem, ki so ustanovljena na črno, se dramatično upočasni, ko se tvegani vlagatelji umikajo

Venture funding to Black-founded startups in the U.S. was $324 million in the second quarter of this year—a steep drop from prior quarters when investment to those companies had just started to show hopeful signs of progress.

Although funding to Black startup founders in the U.S. has always been disproportionately tiny—at single-digit percentages—last year set a record in terms of dollars invested in those companies, Crunchbase data shows. Quarterly funding in the five quarters before this was much higher, ranging between $850 million and $1.2 billion, according to Crunchbase’s Raznolikost v središču pozornosti podatkov.

While Q2’s investment dollars could shift by the close of the quarter in a few weeks, for now that funding to Black startup founders in the U.S. is significantly below the quarterly average since the first quarter of 2021.

This year’s funding decline comes amid a general pullback in venture dollars invested this year, a troubling sign that as venture investors become more cautious, underrepresented entrepreneurs may be among those to feel the retraction most acutely.

Percent of U.S. funding

Startups with at least one Black founder have received 1.9% of deal counts and 1.2% of overall venture dollars invested in the U.S. so far this year, Crunchbase data shows.

That’s in line with the tiny sliver of funding that has typically gone to startups with Black founders: Dollars invested have fluctuated between 0.8% and 1.3% since 2017 per year as a proportion of U.S. funding, according to Crunchbase data. Deal counts since 2017 have ranged slightly higher, between 1.8% and 2.6%.

New unicorns in 2022

Two companies with a Black founder have joined Plošča Crunchbase Unicorn v 2022.

One of them is Virginia-based kidney-care company Somatus, which raised its $325 million Series E led by Wellingtonovo upravljanje at a valuation of $2.5 billion. The company partners with primary care groups and health plans, and serves 150,000 members with its products.

The other is New York-based Finančni Esusu, which raised a $130 million Series B led by the Vizija sklad SoftBank that valued the company at $1 billion. The company helps renters build credit by capturing rental payment data. It reaches more than 2.5 million units across the U.S.

V 2021, a total of six companies with a Black founder joined the Unicorn Board.

2021 vrh

The peak year for funding to Black founders was 2021, which mirrors the dramatic rise in venture funding to U.S.-based startups overall that occurred last year.

More than $4.3 billion was invested in 2021 to Black-founded companies in the U.S., with just over $1.9 billion, or 44%, of that at seed or early-stage funding.

While that represented a highwater mark in terms of overall dollars invested, Black-founded startups still received just 1.3% of all venture and growth equity financing to U.S. startups last year.

2022 do danes

So far in 2022, $100 million has been invested in Black-founded U.S. startups at seed, $591 million at early-stage, and around $876 million at later stage to 100 startups.

100 companies and counting

So far in 2022, 100 U.S. companies with a Black founder have raised venture funding, the vast majority at the seed and early stages, Crunchbase data shows. At the halfway year mark, this tracks below 2021, but isn’t too far off from funding in prior years.

Black-founded startups were already struggling to get past single-digit percentages for funding last year, and that was a peak year for VC funding. In an uncertain venture environment in 2022, where investors are focused on their portfolio companies’ survival, that is not likely to improve.

Crunchbase Pro queries referenced in this article

• Funding to Black-founded companies in 2022 YTD (1.6 milijarde USD)
• Black/African American founded unicorn companies (11)

Metodologija

Funding amounts and counts for the most recent year were collected through June 15, 2022.

Podatki v tem poročilu izvirajo neposredno iz Crunchbase in temeljijo na poročanih podatkih, ki so jih zagotovili naši partnerji Diversity Spotlight, tvegani partnerji, naša mreža skupnosti in viri novic. Podatki v tem poročilu se osredotočajo na ameriški trg za premalo zastopane manjšine, in sicer podjetja, ki so jih ustanovili črnci/afroameričani.

Nabor podatkov Crunchbase se nenehno širi, vendar obstajajo vrzeli. Podjetje morda nima navedenih ustanoviteljev ali pa podatki Diversity Spotlight niso posodobljeni v njegovem profilu Crunchbase. Verjamemo, da pogrešamo podjetja, zlasti v zgodnjih fazah financiranja.

Če opazite manjkajoče podatke, se obrnite na spotlight@crunchbase.com ali preverite z e-poštnim naslovom vašega podjetja update your company’s Diversity Spotlight tags directly onsite.

Crunchbase ima, tako kot vse zbirke podatkov o transakcijah na zasebnem trgu, dokumentiran vzorec zamud pri poročanju. Podatki za leto 2022 se bodo sčasoma povečali glede na prejšnja leta. Ker se podatki sčasoma dodajajo v Crunchbase, se lahko nekatere številke v tem poročilu premaknejo.

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