The US continues to be the global epicenter for VC and other types of early stage funding. Based on data from CrunchBase, US based companies raised $54.5 billion over the past five years compared to $27.5 billion for the rest of the world. The major European-based companies collectively raised $7.5 billion followed by China with $4.6 billion and Japan with $4.2 billion. There may be some bias in this data steaming from its crowd-sourcing approach and English language focus. The degree of omitted data is uncertain.
