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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
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They've talked before about the hot IPO summer, but with SpaceX launched to public markets and Anthropic and (maybe) OpenAI soon to come, it can be easy to miss the sheer scale of what’s happening.
Key facts
- Uber’s $84 billion IPO seemed like a lot of money in 2019, but it’s less than 5% of what SpaceX drummed up
- By comparison, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission counted $70 billion in US-based IPO proceeds last year
- Taking the measure of the pending OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs, the report drops this nugget: “Along with the SpaceX IPO, these exits will generate more value than all U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000
- The team got a good reminder of it in Wednesday’s NCVA-Pitchbook Venture Monitor report
Summary
The team got a good reminder of it in Wednesday’s NCVA-Pitchbook Venture Monitor report. That’s a claim, and when you add up the numbers, it’s hard to disagree. Careful readers will notice a few caveats in the language. Still… that was a pretty eventful 25 years.