Venture capital investment in technology startups based in North Carolina in the past three years has been characterized by a bifurcation of a few large deals and many small deals, as discussed in our previous post.
Nevertheless, the distribution of financing rounds appears to follow the "Power Law Curve", as shown in the chart below:
This law is also known as the 80-20 rule, or Pareto principle.
From Pareto, we might hypothesize that 80% of the aggregate funding comes from 20% of the transactions.
A closer examination of the detail transaction activity confirms that guess. Of the roughly $1.4 billion in total funding over the three-year period among 241 transactions, $1.1 billion (79%) came from the largest 48 transactions (20% of deals).
So, it appears that North Carolina venture capital financing activity has confirmed the Power Law Curve/Pareto principle yet again.