U.S. Market On Upswing In Investors’ Eyes

By Pete Rizzo, Editor (@pete_rizzo_)

In 2011, the global economic picture was clear: Brazil and China were booming emerging markets and the U.S. had a stagnant, slowing economy.

Fast-forward to 2013, and the outlook for the U.S. has become cautiously optimistic. In June and July, prominent indexes found that consumer confidence reached its highest level since the recession, but that overall economic confidence remained low.

Released on August 14, Deloitte’s “2013 Global Venture Capitalist Confidence Survey” found that global VCs are more confident in the United States in 2013 than they were last year.*

In this PYMNTS.com Interactive Infographic, we illustrate this new data to reveal that despite uncertainty at home, confidence in the U.S. economy is heating up abroad.

Scroll your cursor over the highlighted countries to discover how overall confidence in the U.S. has changed among VC investors from 2012 to today. Use our responsive barometer to explore this change in sentiment, and reveal positive or negative changes in investor sentiment in key economies.

United States – Year-Over-Year Change In VC Confidence

Deloitte polled more than 400 global venture capitalists, and received enough responses to paint a vivid picture of how investors from 12 countries viewed investments in both foreign and domestic markets.** Respondents rated their confidence in each national economy on a scale of one to five, with five being the highest mark they could award.

Overall investor confidence in the United States rose 4 percent from 2012’s survey. This uptick was driven by spikes in confidence from Chinese, German and Japanese investors, who were 37 percent, 28 percent and 20 percent more confident in investing in the United States, respectively.

As illustrated by the following Infographics, confidence in China and Brazil, by comparison, has cooled off since 2012.

Brazil – Year-Over-Year Change In VC Confidence

China – Year-Over-Year Change In VC Confidence

Overall confidence in investing in China fell 6 percent from 2012’s levels. This decline was spurred by a decrease in confidence among investors in the majority of surveyed nations. Only German, Dutch and Indian investors were more confident in investing in China in 2013 than in last year’s study.

Likewise, Deloitte found that overall VC confidence in investing in Brazil was down 6 percent from 2012, driven by strong drops in the reported confidence of Taiwanese, Australian and Israeli investors.

For data and insights for all the studied markets, and charts that track VC sentiment on capital markets, government policy and fundraising trends, read Deloitte’s full report here.   

*The high and low values on our interactive barometer were set at 60, the largest increase seen in confidence in any of the studied markets.

**This was the first year South Africa was included in the study. As such, no comparative data was available.