Sampford Advisors VC Survey Results

Here at Sampford Advisors, we we pride ourselves on staying on the pulse of capital markets and are regularly leveraging our extensive network to derive insights and trends that we can use to help our clients. One of these methods of research is a bi-annual survey that we administer to VCs.

The image above outlines some characteristics of the respondents to get a better understanding of the demographic that provided these answers.

The survey consisted of numerous questions covering some key areas. We asked respondents to rank key evaluation metrics in terms of priority when analyzing a prospective investment, as well as a portfolio company’s performance. Growth was the most important, while EBITDA was ranked at bottom of the scale. Other key points that respondents highlighted were a firm’s path to profitability / business model, as well as the founding team.

We also gathered an insight from respondents on their observations in terms of valuation over the LTM, as well as their expectations for the NTM. Additionally, respondents gave us their expectations for deal activity for the next twelve months for both VC, and M&A activity.

We’d like to thank all the respondents that took the time to provide us with this information.

To see the full results of the VC survey click here.

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