Venture Capital & Startups

Market Outlooks
December 2025

2025 Global IPO market key highlights and 2026 outlook

EY

Karim Anani

Research

25 Pages

EY analyzes how the 2025 IPO market stabilized after years of disruption and what that means for 2026. They highlight 1,293 IPOs raising about 172 billion dollars globally as proceeds recovered while deal volumes stayed roughly flat.

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Market Outlooks
December 2025

2026 US Venture Capital Outlook

PitchBook

Research

21 Pages

PitchBook’s venture team maps a cautious but improving United States venture landscape for 2026.

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Alternative Assets
June 2025

Why asset quality drives venture secondary returns

Stepstone

Research

6 Pages

Fund secondaries acquired at discounts of more than 15% have actually materially underperformed those acquired at thinner discounts.

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Alternative Assets
May 2025

Rethinking Venture Capital

Venture Capital

Rohit Yadav

Research

134 Pages

This mega report offers a data-driven, globally informed perspective on how LPs and GPs can navigate today’s evolving venture landscape, from capital flows and liquidity, to allocation frameworks and portfolio construction.

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Markets
April 2025

Our 2025 Annual Consumer Trend Report

Forerunner

Kirsten Green

Research

98 Pages

Forerunner VC shares a comprehensive update on the state of the consumer, covering health and wellness, security, and Generative AI, and where they see investment opportunities around each of them.

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Annual Report
April 2025

VC Fund Performance FY 2024

Carta

Kevin Dowd, Michael Young, Peter Walker

Research

28 Pages

Carta's analysis of over 2,000 U.S. venture funds from 2017 to 2024 reveals a shifting landscape in venture capital.

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Venture Capital & Startups
January 2025

Scaling Through Chaos: The Founder’s Guide to Building and Leading Teams from 0 to 1,000

Index Ventures

Research

11 Pages

Index Ventures studied over 200,000 founder and employee career profiles from 210 of the most successful tech companies.

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Alternative Assets
January 2024

Venture Capital: Shedding the “access class” label

Stepstone

Research

8 Pages

StepStone argues that venture capital is evolving beyond just access to elite firms—manager selection now plays a crucial role amid the industry's explosive growth and proliferation of new funds.

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Alternative Assets
November 2023

The Vintage Year Power Law

Stepstone

Research

6 Pages

StepStone Group investigates what the primary driver of strong performance is for an institution’s venture portfolio.

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Alternative Assets
October 2023

The State of U.S. Early Stage Venture & Startups: 3Q23

AngelList

Matthew Speiser

Research

26 Pages

AngelList reviews how early stage venture finally showed signs of life after a long stretch of worsening performance.

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Alternative Assets
August 2023

The State of U.S. Early-Stage Venture & Startups: 2Q23

AngelList

Research

26 Pages

The authors analyze the state of United States early stage venture and startups in the second quarter of 2023 using AngelList and Brex data.

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Alternative Assets
February 2023

State of the Markets

SVB

Research

33 Pages

Silicon Valley Bank analyzes the innovation economy’s reset in early 2023, emphasizing tighter funding, portfolio triage, and shifting exit paths.

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Alternative Assets
January 2023

The State of U.S. Early-Stage Venture & Startups: 2022

AngelList

Research

29 Pages

AngelList and Silicon Valley Bank track early stage venture through a strong first half followed by a sharp cooldown and late year stabilization.

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Wealth Management
October 2022

Tracking Unicorn Companies in U.S. Mutual Funds

Morningstar

Jack Shannon, Katie Reichart

Research

24 Pages

Morningstar explains how U.S. equity mutual funds have increasingly owned private company shares and why that can backfire.

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Portfolio Management
September 2022

Liquid Venture Capital 

Sparkline Capital

Kai Wu

Research

17 Pages

Sparkline Capital argues investors can capture much of venture capital’s innovation premium with liquid public equities, and complement blockchain exposure with crypto tokens.

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Alternative Assets
June 2022

Adapting to Endure

Sequoia Capital

Research

52 Pages

Sequoia Capital explains how founders can adapt to a higher cost of capital and a tougher fundraising climate.

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