Tech companies are seeing significantly more funding before they go public.
What's new: Data from CB Insights shows that in the last eight years, the median amount of funding raised has jumped by more than four times to just under $300 million as of early December. That data includes IPOs or direct listings of U.S.-headquartered, VC-backed tech companies on major U.S. exchanges only.
Go deeper: Unprofitable company IPOs were a big zero in 2019