Healthcare fundraising has been significantly increasing since 2014 and reached a high of $9.1 billion in 2017, according to Silicon Valley Bank's Trends in Healthcare Investments and Exits 2018. SVB predicts fundraising will drop to the $6 billion to $7 billion range in 2018.
Here are the estimated dollar amounts allocated to healthcare by all U.S. venture funds in the past nine years.
1. 2009: $5.2 billion
2. 2010: $1.8 billion
3. 2011: $3.7 billion
4. 2012: $3.6 billion
5. 2013: $3.9 billion
6. 2014: $6.1 billion
7. 2015: $7.5 billion
8. 2016: $7.2 billion
9. 2017: $9.1 billion