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Independent venture intelligenceResearch edition · 19 September 2026

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Illustration of coin-operated robot/2020-Global. [Dom Guzman] — Original artwork accompanying Crunchbase's 2020 global funding report. Editorial illustration, not a quantitative chart.Illustration: Dom Guzman / Crunchbase News ↗

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Illustration for Global venture funding-Unicorn, notepad, coffee, eyeglasses. — Original artwork accompanying Crunchbase's 2021 global funding report. Editorial illustration, not a quantitative chart.Illustration: Dom Guzman / Crunchbase News ↗

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Illustration of injured unicorn for quarterly global. — Original artwork accompanying Crunchbase's 2022 global funding report. Editorial illustration, not a quantitative chart.Illustration: Dom Guzman / Crunchbase News ↗

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Global Quarterly. Illustration of man with bag of $ going down an escalator while robot goes up. [Dom Guzman] — Original artwork accompanying Crunchbase's 2023 global funding report. Editorial illustration, not a quantitative chart.Illustration: Dom Guzman / Crunchbase News ↗

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Original report illustration — Original artwork accompanying Crunchbase's 2024 global funding report. Editorial illustration, not a quantitative chart.Illustration: Dom Guzman / Crunchbase News ↗

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Original report illustration — Original artwork accompanying Crunchbase's 2025 global funding report. Editorial illustration, not a quantitative chart.Illustration: Dom Guzman / Crunchbase News ↗

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Crunchbase chart of annual global venture funding through 2020 — The original 2020 report chart. Its historical values reflect that report's data vintage.Chart: Crunchbase News ↗

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Crunchbase chart of global venture dollar volume from 2012 to 2021 — The original 2021 chart, with the publisher's stage breakdown and report-time totals.Chart: Crunchbase News ↗

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Carta chart showing confirmed startup closures by quarter, ending at 254 in Q1 2024 — Confirmed account closures attributed to going out of business. This is a count within Carta's changing customer population, not a market-wide failure rate.Chart: Carta ↗

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Carta chart comparing the share of seed cohorts that progressed to Series A over time — Original cohort chart from Carta's February 2025 analysis. The 24-month comparison does not measure eventual lifetime graduation.Chart: Carta / Peter Walker ↗

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Source artwork for Carta’s option-pool guide — Original illustration accompanying Carta’s explanation of option pools.Artwork: Carta ↗

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Source artwork for Carta’s liquidation-preference guide — Original illustration from Carta’s liquidation-preference reference.Artwork: Carta ↗

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Source artwork for Carta’s guide to residual value to paid-in capital — Original artwork from Carta’s RVPI explainer.Artwork: Carta ↗

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Carta source illustration of a pro forma cap table — Original artwork from Carta’s pro forma cap-table guide.Artwork: Carta ↗

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Page one of Y Combinator’s post-money SAFE user guide — Y Combinator’s own quick-start examples, including its conversion caveat. Full page shown; source publication date is not stated.Document: Y Combinator ↗ · Page 1

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Page one of the SEC’s blank Form D — The actual SEC form, not an example of a completed company filing. Full page shown.Document: US Securities and Exchange Commission ↗ · Page 1

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Page 33 of the NVCA 2026 Yearbook showing the exit landscape — Original report page covering 2025 exits. Reported exit value is distinct from cash distributed to fund investors.Report: NVCA · Data: PitchBook ↗ · Page 33

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NVCA yearbook page showing sectors and counts of nontraditional investors — Full report page with PitchBook data. The investor-count series is a separate measure from the share of deal value involving those investors.Report: NVCA · Data: PitchBook ↗ · Page 31

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Partech chart showing 359 African tech equity deals, up 44%, and US$1.43 billion in funding, down 29%, in 2020. — Partech's report pairs a rising deal count with a falling funding total. The figures cover its defined sample of African tech equity rounds above US$200,000.Chart: Partech Africa ↗

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CB Insights bar chart showing global digital health funding rising 79% from US$32.0 billion in 2020 to US$57.2 billion in 2021. — CB Insights' public report preview charts its provider-defined global digital health funding series through the 2021 peak.Chart: CB Insights ↗

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Illustration of an illuminated exit sign beside a stack of coins. — The original illustration accompanying Crunchbase News' August 2023 assessment of billion-dollar exits from the 2021 cohort.Illustration: Crunchbase News ↗

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CB Insights chart showing global fintech funding falling 46% to US$75.2 billion and deal count falling 8% to 5,048 in 2022. — CB Insights' annual chart shows that fintech funding fell more sharply than deal count in 2022.Chart: CB Insights ↗

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Galaxy Research chart comparing quarterly crypto venture capital invested with Bitcoin's price from 2016 through 2023. — Galaxy's PitchBook-based chart shows crypto venture investment continuing to fall in 2023 while Bitcoin's market price recovered.Chart: Galaxy Research; data: PitchBook Data, Coin Metrics ↗

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Illustration of a woman at a computer viewing a rocket and rising line chart. — The original illustration accompanying Crunchbase News' analysis of 2023 US venture funding to companies with female founders.Illustration: Crunchbase News ↗

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Cover of Atomico's State of European Tech 2024 tenth anniversary report. — The cover of Atomico's 2024 State of European Tech report, released November 19, 2024. The article's investment figures use data through September 30 and extrapolate the full year.Report cover: Atomico / State of European Tech ↗ · Page 1

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Aerial view of rows of solar panels crossing an ochre landscape. — PwC's hero image for State of Climate Tech 2024. It is contextual photography, not a quantitative chart.Image: PwC ↗

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