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Deals update: Negligible increase in investment activity but exits fall again

There was more bad news for investors concerned about liquidity as just one exit was recorded in the week ending 18 March, a fall from three the previous week and seven the week before that.

There were 146 investors involved in 56 deals and one exit across 12 sectors, compared to 145 investors in 54 deals with three exits last week.

North American venture capital accounted for 45 of the 56 deals, while European investment activity took a dive with just eight transactions altogether.

Once again technology and software were the busiest sectors with, respectively, 14 and 12 transactions recorded in the latest week, all of them in the US. And confirming last week's trend, healthcare and life sciences remained relatively low down the list with just seven transactions.

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