Fintech Sector Matures As Funding Shifts to Later Stages

As previously seen, funding into financial technology has increased significantly in recent years. Now we are going one level deeper on our fintech report and research platform to examine its funding by round. From our analysis we can conclude that the fintech sector is continuing to mature over time.

This conclusion comes from two takeaways:

• Funding amounts are shifting from early-stage to later-stage events
• Funding counts are dropping in the Seed round and growing elsewhere

We’ll explain these takeaways with some graphics that show fintech funding activity by round.

To help set the stage, the graphic below illustrates fintech funding amounts over time. As you can see, the sector’s overall funding showed robust growth over the past few years.

Fintech Funding by Quarter

Fintech Funding Amounts Shifting to Later-Stage Events

Let’s examine the fintech funding amounts by round as a percentage of the total, which show changes independent of the total size.

Fintech Funding Amount Percentages

As shown in the graph, the funding amounts dropped in the Seed and Series A rounds and increased in the Late Stage from 2012 to 2017. Specifically, Seed round funding amounts shrunk from 9% to 3%, and Series A amounts shrunk from 23% to 11%. On the other hand, Late Stage funding amounts grew from 2% to 24% over the same time period.

We see that the funding amount percentages by round indicate a shift from early-stage to later-stage events from 2012 to 2017, would the funding event count graph show the same trend? Let’s examine that in the next section to find out.

Fintech Funding Counts Dropping in Seed Round and Growing in All Other Rounds

The below graph shows the fintech funding counts by round as a percentage of total events.

Fintech Funding Count Percentages

This graph supports our previous observation from the funding amount graph. In particular, Seed round funding counts decreased from 63% to 30% from 2012 to 2017. As a result, the funding counts in all other rounds increased by various magnitudes.

Conclusion: Fintech Sector Continues to Mature Over Time

In summary, we have seen that fintech funding amounts shifted from Seed and Series A to later-stage events. Fintech funding counts also dropped in the Seed round and grew in all other rounds. These observations led us to conclude that the fintech sector is continuing to mature over time.

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