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The very kind folk at Thomson Reuters have provided me with some of the data that Fred Wilson was asking about in his two blog posts on the VC maths problem (I, II).
Starting with US data from 1994 to 2008:
A total of $69.5 bn was raised via 998 IPOs of VC backed firms (of all flavours) in the US. The total post offer value was $396 bn.
There were 3000 M&A transactions from 1994 to 2009 YTD of VC backed firms in the US. Of these, 1460 were disclosed. The sum of these deal values was $219bn, the average was $ 150m. On average each VC-backed firm had received $32m in financing and in-toto they had received $31m in venture backing.
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