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Most tech startups exit without raising funds, sell for under $50M

Billion-dollar valuations and mushrooming funding round amounts gathered much of the attention of recent years in startup-land.

But a new report shows that the majority of tech startups exit before they raise any venture or private equity funding and their valuation on exit is less than $50 million.

Venture investment research firm CB Insights said in a report on tech exits in the first half of 2016 that 53 percent involved startups that had raised less than $50 million. Another 26 percent were valued at between $50 million and $200 million.

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