Drake Dukes, the co-founder of Launch Gravity — a knowledge analysis and analytics agency — and his crew have put collectively a listing of 5,000 firm founders who’ve acquired a Series A funding inside final yr. Interestingly, India is positioned third within the listing. The listing is topped by the US with 1,200 corporations receiving Series A funding throughout the previous yr, adopted by the UK (225 corporations) and India (109 corporations). Dukes tweeted that he was prepared to share the listing with everybody in an try to “liberate the data” from the grip of some corporations.

According to Dukes, the highest three sectors receiving essentially the most Series A funding are software program, data expertise, and synthetic intelligence (AI). The notable entrants on this listing are e-commerce at twelfth place, blockchain at twenty first place, and cybersecurity too is getting some consideration on the thirtieth place.

The prime sectors presently receiving Series A funding are:

1. Software
2. Information Technology
3. Artificial Intelligence
4. SaaS
5. FinTech
6. Health Care
7. Machine Learning

Notables:

E-Commerce (twelfth), Blockchain (twenty first), Cybersecurity (thirtieth)

— Drake Dukes (@DDukes12) September 30, 2021

Here’s the breakout country-wise:

The US is within the lead with 1.2K corporations with Series A offers

Here’s the breakout of the opposite international locations:

United Kingdom ???????? – 225

India ???????? – 109

Germany ???????? – 105

France ???????? – 86

Canada ???????? – 82

Israel ???????? – 72

Brazil ???????? – 42

Switzerland ????????- 39

Spain ???????? – 38

Others (283)

— Drake Dukes (@DDukes12) September 30, 2021

He mentioned an organization normally took just a little over 4 years from its founding to get a Series A funding, the primary enterprise capital funding for a startup, and the common complete funding quantity has been round $20.7 million (roughly Rs. 153.53 crores).

Quick Facts ☑️

Avg Time From Company Inception to Series A – 4 years, 4 months

Avg Series A Round Size – $16.7M

Avg Total Funding Amount – $20.7M

Avg Size of Founding Team – 2 (Max – 10)

Avg Team Size – 53 Employees

After elevating a Series A in final 365, 27 corporations exited

— Drake Dukes (@DDukes12) September 30, 2021

Also, a lot of Series A founders have prior expertise of working at prime tech or monetary corporations. Most founders have labored at Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, and Goldman Sachs.

Series A founders maintain prior experiences from these corporations:

1. @Google
2. @Microsoft
3. @McKinsey
4. @GoldmanSachs
5. @IBM
6. @IDF
7. @BCG
8. @BainAlerts
9. @Uber
10. @Facebook

Other Notables:@salesforce (18th), @Apple (twentieth), @amazon (twenty eighth)

— Drake Dukes (@DDukes12) September 30, 2021

Dukes, a former Fortune 500 consultant-turned-internet entrepreneur, mentioned the Series A corporations have gotten a price range and they’re “hiring like crazy.” In case anybody desires to attach with them, he has provided to share the founders’ emails and their Twitter handles.

Series A corporations have price range, are hiring like loopy, and have to go massive ! ????

The dataset contains the founders emails & Twitter handles in case you need to join.

So consider it like:

Pitchbook + Crunchbase + LinkedIn + CB Insights + ZoomInfo

RT & DM me for the info ✔️

— Drake Dukes (@DDukes12) September 30, 2021

His firm, Gravity, describes itself as a agency that helps “you make sense out of data.” It says the crew members are passionate knowledge, gross sales, and advertising professionals who like to design, code, and discover the boundaries of expertise and creativity.