IVC Research Center, Crunchbase Announce Strategic Partnership, Release Joint Study

Israel’s IVC Research Center has partnered with US-based business information platform Crunchbase to empower “data-driven research on a global scale,” the companies announced in a joint statement Monday.

Through the partnership, the two companies released a study analyzing the time between funding rounds as it relates to different geographies and the volume of capital raised by high-tech companies.

The study was based on data collected between the years 2010 to 2019 and reviewed by the IVC Research Center in the US/Canada, Europe, and Israel. This included proprietary data as well as data provided by Crunchbase.

According to the study, the US typically raises a Series A round the fastest in comparison to the other region. It takes Israel the longest amount of time to raise a funding round. The median time for the US is about a year and three months. For Europe, it is a year and five months. For Israel, the median is a year and nine months.

Things seem to reverse for later rounds, as Israel appears to take less time to raise Series C and D funding while the US takes the most time.

The study also concludes that larger rounds tend to take less time than small or medium-sized deals. The reason is that larger rounds tend to be for more mature companies, which already have a plethora of financial data, good investors, and are more well-known.