50% of Tech IPO Pipeline companies raised their first financings in the past 5 years, 62% in the past 6 years. 2012 saw the greatest number of first funding rounds with 58. Highlighting the lengthening amount of time it takes to go public, 7% of Pipeline companies first raised before 2005.

These are the startups that will shape tech news in 2017. The report shows that despite a slowing down in startup funding overall, high momentum companies are able to raise money in the private markets and that there are more companies poised for IPOs next year than 2016.

After more than doubling between 2014 and 2015, the rate of $100M+ equity financing rounds to pipeline companies in 2016 YTD has fallen from 2015’s high. The 41 rounds this year raised a cumulative $16.1B, with Uber alone raising $3.5B in private equity.

The 369 companies in the pipeline have raised $86.2B across nearly 2000 deals since 2000. Over one-third of that was raised in 2015 alone. Despite YoY funding increases to pipeline companies since 2009, funding is set to drop in 2016 at the current run rate. Deals to pipeline companies are set to drop for the 2nd consecutive year.

A SELECTION OF THE 2017 TECH IPO PIPELINE COMPANIES

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