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title: "Recently Funded Companies: Insights from February Tech Fundings"
description: The articles covers funding round stats for recently funded startups in tech and biotech in January, 2019.
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# [Recently Funded Companies: Insights from February Tech Fundings](https://www.fundz.net/blog/recently-funded-companies-february-2019)

 Written by [Darren Wall](https://www.fundz.net/blog/author/darren-wall) | Mar 2, 2019 12:49:38 PM

In February, 2019 there were 228 new filings of funding rounds in the U.S. from companies that were classified as "computers", "other technology", "telecommunications" or "biotechnology". 

Some notable findings are summarized below:

- In total, $1.65 billion was invested, excluding mergers & acquisitions.
- 228 companies received funding, with 35 being biotech.
- $217.5 million, or 13.2.% was invested in biotechnology
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- The average funding round in the U.S. was $6.6 million (USD).
- The median funding round was $1.15 million.
- California startups dominated with $790 million of the funding.
- New York companies were 2nd with $192 million in funding rounds.
- Massachusetts startup companies took third place with $158 million in investment.
- Washington was fourth with $110 million.
- Illinois rounded out the top 5 with $65.8 million.
- The top 5 states took almost 80% of the tech & biotech related funding.

Topic : [Startup Database](https://www.fundz.net/venture-capital-startup-database/)

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