The $900m venture financing of FTX Trading was the financial services industry’s top venture financing deal as total deals worth $4.1bn were announced globally in July 2021, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked a decrease of 21.04% over the previous month of $5.18bn and a rise of 31.1% when compared with the last 12-month average, which stood at $3.12bn.

Comparing venture financing deals value in different regions of the globe, North America held the top position, with total announced deals in the period worth $1.28bn. At the country level, the US topped the list in terms of deal value at $1.04bn.

In terms of volumes, North America emerged as the top region for financial services industry venture financing deals globally, followed by Europe and then Asia-Pacific.

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The top country in terms of venture financing deals activity in July 2021 was the US with 56 deals, followed by the UK with 14 and Singapore with six.

In 2021, as of July, financial services venture financing deals worth $32.68bn were announced globally, marking a decrease of 250.4% year on year.

financial services industry venture financing deals in July 2021: Top deals

The top five financial services industry venture financing deals accounted for 45.1% of the overall value during July 2021.

The combined value of the top five financial services venture financing deals stood at $1.84bn, against the overall value of $4.1bn recorded for the month.

The top five financial services industry venture financing deals of July 2021 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) FTX Trading $900m venture financing deal with Alan Howard,Altimeter Capital Management,Bondshine Capital,Circle Ventures,Coinbase Ventures,Hudson River Trading,Insight Partners,Izzy Englander,Lightspeed Venture Partners – US,Multicoin Capital Management,New Enterprise Associates,Paradigm (US),Ribbit Capital,Senator Investment Group,Sequoia Capital,Sino Global Capital,SoftBank Group,Third Point,Thoma Bravo Advantage,Van Eck Associates and Willoughby Capital Holdings

2) The $250m venture financing of VNLIFE Corporation Joint Stock by Dragoneer Investment Group,EDBI,General Atlantic Service Company,GIC,PayPal Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 1

3) Lunar $249.32m venture financing deal with Heartland Financial USA,Kinnevik and Tencent Holdings

4) The $215m venture financing of Clearco by Bow Capital,Intuit,Park West Asset Management and SoftBank Vision Fund 2

5) bunq $228m venture financing deal with Ali Niknam and Pollen Street Capital